packet

packet is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
2. noun. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.
3. transitive verb. To make up into a packet or bundle.
4. transitive verb. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
5. intransitive verb. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
6. noun. a boat for carrying mail

   Synonyms: mailboat

7. noun. a small package or bundle
8. noun. (computer science) a message or message fragment
9. noun. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together

   Synonyms: bundle, package, parcel

Synonyms

mailboat, bundle, package, parcel

Common word forms

packets, packeted, packeting, packetise, packetize

Words from these letters

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