Matelot is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 165 anagrams from letters in matelot (aelmott).
1910-15; French ≪ Middle Dutch mattenoot sailor, equivalent to matte mat1 + noot companion (Dutch genoot)
The Buccaneers went in pairs, every hunter having his camerade or matelot (sailor), as well as his engags.
No excuse was allowed; and if illness prevented the man elected taking the office, his matelot, or companion, took his place.
I prove to you I am not; but a good, sound, safe, French matelot!
We do not know whether, in peculiar cases, a matelot became his camarade's heir.
Finally a matelot advanced—a common sailor—a man before the mast.
He had been a matelot, he said,—made a long voyage, and once touched at an English port.