Minuet
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A slow, elegant ballroom dance in triple time that was fashionable in European courts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
“The dancers performed a graceful minuet at the centre of the candlelit ballroom.”
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min·u·et
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Three vowels I, U, E, ends in UET which is unusual, no repeated letters
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Scrabble
Worth 8 points, vowel-rich word useful for clearing I, U, and E from your rack simultaneously
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