Definitions for phaeton

phaeton pha·e·ton

Spelling: [fey-i-tn or, esp. British, feyt-n]
IPA: /ˈfeɪ ɪ tn or, esp. British, ˈfeɪt n/

Phaeton is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in phaeton (aehnopt).

Definitions for phaeton

noun

  1. any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
  2. a vintage automobile of the touring-car type.

Origin of phaeton

1585-95; special use of Latin Phaetōn, variant of Phaethōn Phaethon

Examples for phaeton

The phaeton was full of people and there was a doubt as to where Count Peter could sit.

I'm going to have a horse and phaeton for your exclusive use.

Yet another mourned for phaeton—phaeton “dead ere his prime.”

However, the Doctor's brougham, like the Rector's phaeton, was a thing of the past.

Advertise for a gentleman's pony-horse and phaeton and harness complete.

With this remark they both dismounted from the phaeton, and passed into the house.

He had been a tailor in his time, and had kept a phaeton, he said.

Since that time phaeton has got into the chariot of the sun; we, alas!

Did you know you are to drive me into town in the phaeton for the fireworks?

Do you think the ancient Greeks really believed the story of phaeton?

Word Value for phaeton
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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