thicket

Meanings

Plural: thickets

Noun

a dense growth of bushes
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however.
Compare typologically Bulgarian гъстак (gǎstak), Macedonian густеж (gustež), Czech houští, Polish gęstwina (< Proto-Slavic *gǫstъ); Latin dūmus (akin to dense).

Synonyms

brush, brushwood, coppice, copse

Scrabble Score: 16

thicket is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
thicket is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
thicket is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

thicket is a valid Words With Friends word