Definitions for planchette

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planchette plan·chette

Spelling: [plan-shet, -chet]

IPA: /plænˈʃɛt, -ˈtʃɛt/

Planchette is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 487 anagrams from letters in planchette (aceehlnptt).

Definitions for planchette

noun

1. a small, heart-shaped board supported by two casters and a pencil or stylus that, when moved across a surface by the light, unguided pressure of the fingertips, is supposed to trace meaningful patterns or written messages revealing subconscious thoughts, psychic phenomena, clairvoyant messages, etc.

Origin of planchette

From French, dating back to 1855-60; See origin at planch, -ette

Examples for planchette

With the planchette two or three persons may write at the same time.

The following is a sketch of my own first experience with planchette.

A lady was writing automatically by means of the planchette.

It was evidently this crest that planchette was trying to sketch.

planchette said there was a spirit there who thought it could draw if we wished it.

planchette was then much in vogue, and one stood on a side-table in the room.

It was on Thursday that the interview with planchette occurred.

I put my hands on the keyboard like on the planchette of a Ouija Board hoping to conjure something.

You used to carry a planchette that once belonged to the actress Rachel.

Valentin was left alone with planchette in the empty workshop.