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willets

willets is the plural of willet.

Meaning of willet

Noun

willet (plural willets)

  1. Tringa semipalmata (or formerly Catoptrophorus semipalmatus), a large shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.

See all 2 meanings of willet

Proper noun capitalized: Willets

Willets (countable and uncountable, plural Willetses)

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  2. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States.

Forms of willets

pluralWilletses

Origin of willets

Variant of Willetts.

Questions about willets

What does willets mean?
Willets means a surname originating as a patronymic.
What is willets the plural of?
Willets is the plural of willet.
What part of speech is willets?
Willets is a proper noun.

Words near willets in the dictionary

  1. Willeses
  2. Willesley
  3. willest
  4. willet
  5. willeth
  6. willets
  7. Willetses
  8. Willett
  9. Willette
  10. Willettes
  11. Willetts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: willets (page history and authors); Willets (page history and authors); willet (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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