Definitions for mettle

mettle met·tle

Spelling: [met-l]
IPA: /ˈmɛt l/

Mettle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in mettle (eelmtt).

Definitions for mettle

noun

  1. courage and fortitude:
  2. disposition or temperament:

Idioms

  1. on one's mettle, in the position of being incited to do one's best:

Origin of mettle

1575-85; spelling variant of metal, in metaphoric usages

Examples for mettle

The presidency subjects American incumbents to perennial gut checks, testing their mettle.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, his mettle in polar extremes far outstrips his writing ability.

This set me on my mettle, and I worked hard and with some success.

But will it keep women of talent and substance and mettle and ambition from gunning it forward?

Yet you have heart and mettle, I believe, else you would not be here.'

If their corner does not have the lights to see what is in the offing, then the boxer has to have the mettle to say “enough.”

The assistant was on his mettle, and either failed or triumphed.

We think that it is a mistake to put our artists on their mettle in this way.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden may now have to prove their mettle as never before.

They'll be on their mettle, the both of 'em, more 'specially Diablo.

Word Value for mettle
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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