Definitions for stilettoes

stilettoes sti·let·to

Spelling: [sti-let-oh]
IPA: /stɪˈlɛt oʊ/

Stilettoes is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 274 anagrams from letters in stilettoes (eeilossttt).

Definitions for stilettoes

noun

  1. a short dagger with a blade that is thick in proportion to its width.
  2. a pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in needlework.
  3. a short dagger with a blade that is thick in proportion to its width.
  4. a pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in needlework.

verb (used with object)

  1. to stab or kill with a stiletto.
  2. to stab or kill with a stiletto.

Origin of stilettoes

1605-15; Italian, equivalent to stil(o) dagger (Latin stilus stylus) + -etto -ette

Examples for stilettoes

Take away, I entreat you, this stiletto, which henceforth is useless to me.

It is only a short step with them from a sworn friendship to the stiletto.

At the time, Fendrick remembers, very few women (outside of “4/20 girls” or “stiletto stoners”) were speaking out about it.

Lozada is known to reality-TV fans as an attractive bully with a penchant for throwing wine bottles and stiletto pumps.

And he recognized the girl with the stiletto whom he had caught in his hotel room.

And yet, if that offer had not been made as some sort of stiletto jest, why had it been made at all?

He drew the stiletto from his bosom, and threw that after it.

There was on the toilet-table a stiletto, with a pearl handle.

It was then that he was done for and with what is assumed to have been a stiletto.

As for the other palace servants, they had been silenced with bribery or the stiletto.

It is only a short step with them from a sworn friendship to the stiletto.

He drew the stiletto from his bosom, and threw that after it.

Lozada is known to reality-TV fans as an attractive bully with a penchant for throwing wine bottles and stiletto pumps.

Take away, I entreat you, this stiletto, which henceforth is useless to me.

And he recognized the girl with the stiletto whom he had caught in his hotel room.

And yet, if that offer had not been made as some sort of stiletto jest, why had it been made at all?

It was then that he was done for and with what is assumed to have been a stiletto.

At the time, Fendrick remembers, very few women (outside of “4/20 girls” or “stiletto stoners”) were speaking out about it.

There was on the toilet-table a stiletto, with a pearl handle.

As for the other palace servants, they had been silenced with bribery or the stiletto.

Word Value for stilettoes
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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