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splette

splette is the alternative spelling of splet.

Meaning of splet

Verb

splet (third-person singular simple present splets, present participle spletting, simple past and past participle spletted)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive, later dialectal) To split.
    • I Splette a fyſſhe a ſonder / as a pyke oꝛ lynge oꝛ ſuche lyke / Ie ouuers, coniugate in I open. Some ſplet their pyckes whan they bꝛoyle them / but I wolde bꝛoyle them hole: […]1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan...

Forms of splette

third-person singular presentsplettes
present participlespletting
past participlespletted
pastspletted

Questions about splette

What is splette the alternative spelling of?
Splette is the alternative spelling of splet.

Words near splette in the dictionary

  1. splenovenography
  2. splent
  3. splent coal
  4. splents
  5. splet
  6. splette
  7. spleuchan
  8. spleuchans
  9. spleughan
  10. spleughans
  11. splib

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Adapted from Wiktionary: splette (page history and authors); splet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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