Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

callet

/ˈkælət/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.07 in modern English

Syllables: cal-let
IPA: /ˈkælət/

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A trull or prostitute.

Obsolete

noun

A scold or gossip.

Obsolete

verb

To rail or scold.

Obsolete

noun

A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.

Example Sentences

"hear her in her spleen Callet like a butter-quean"
"You add unmelted chocolate callets (purpose-made chocolate chips) or finely chopped chocolate to already-melted chocolate to bring the temperature down."
"In the shops and bakery we use chocolate callets (or chips) in our baking. They come in a range of cocoa percentages and have the great advantage of melting evenly, which makes the chocolate less temperamental to work with."
"We call for chocolate chips in our Chocolate Chip Cookies (page 1010), but there's another chocolate product on the market that's sometimes used for the same purpose: chocolate callets, which are formulated for melting."

Etymology

Perhaps from French caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or Irish caile (“girl”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: caillette, caile, callet

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

callets (plural) callets (present, singular) calleting (participle, present) calleted (participle, past) calleted (past)

Questions

How do you pronounce callet?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkælət/.
What does callet mean?: A trull or prostitute.
Where does callet come from?: It is traced to French.

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