Minaret is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 311 anagrams from letters in minaret (aeimnrt).
1675-85; French minaret, Spanish minarete, or Italian minaretto ≪ Arabic manārah lighthouse, perhaps akin to nār fire
The minaret is a tall slender tower, peculiar to Turkish architecture.
But, as with the claims for minaret building in Switzerland, more is being demanded by Muslims.
The minaret, I may here remark, is to the mosques what a steeple is to the church.
The minaret is faced with tiles and is surmounted by a gilded crescent.
It tints minaret after minaret, dome after dome, house after house.
One minaret of Byzantine design we passed on our way to the town.
Seldom had he looked at a minaret without thinking of prayer.
By this time also, if not earlier, the minaret had become universal.
The minaret runs up a great deal higher, and there is a stairway.
Like the muezzin on his minaret, the elegist calls to prayer.