Definitions for plummet

plummet plum·met

Spelling: [pluhm-it]
IPA: /ˈplʌm ɪt/

Plummet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in plummet (elmmptu).

Definitions for plummet

noun

  1. Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
  2. something that weighs down or depresses.

verb (used without object)

  1. to plunge.

Origin of plummet

1350-1400; (noun) Middle English plommet Middle French, diminutive of plomb lead; (v.) derivative of the noun See plumb, Examples for plummet

Who heartlessly kicks Aziz Ansari into a hole, causing him to plummet to his death, instead of trying to save him?

That strategy was revealed as a loser when print advertising began to plummet, and fall, and then fall again.

But it would be the quickest way for her to plummet in the approval of the Burmese masses.

No plummet ever sank so deep as Jamie sank the thoughts of those few months.

Oh, is there any plummet to sound the depths of a mother's love?

Her singles were perfectly round, and as flat at the top as if laid with a plummet.

Interest rates will soar, home values will plummet, stock markets will crash, and global economies will crater.

Wind chills will plummet to around -20ºF on Friday for Hartford, Providence, and western Massachusetts.

This line, with a plummet, is mentioned by Lucilius; and was the sund-gyrd of the Anglo-Saxons.

And love was the plummet dropped down into the deeps of him where like had never gone.

Word Value for plummet
Scrable

13

Words with friends

18

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