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Is batter a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word batter is a Scrabble US word. The word batter is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is batter a Scrabble UK word?

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6-letter words (2 found)

BATTER,TABRET,

5-letter words (6 found)

ARETT,BETTA,TABER,TATER,TETRA,TREAT,

4-letter words (20 found)

ABER,ABET,ARET,BARE,BATE,BATT,BEAR,BEAT,BETA,BRAE,BRAT,ETAT,RATE,TARE,TART,TATE,TEAR,TEAT,TRAT,TRET,

3-letter words (23 found)

ARB,ARE,ART,ATE,ATT,BAE,BAR,BAT,BET,BRA,EAR,EAT,ERA,ETA,RAT,REB,RET,TAB,TAE,TAR,TAT,TEA,TET,

2-letter words (12 found)

AB,AE,AR,AT,BA,BE,EA,ER,ET,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 64 words from batter according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of batter

batter

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbætə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbætəɹ/, [ˈbæɾɚ]
  • Homophone: badder (in accents with flapping)
  • Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bateren, from Old French batre (“to beat”).

Verb

batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

  1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
  2. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
  3. (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
    Synonym: thrash
  4. (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
    Synonym: intoxicate
  5. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
  6. (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.
Derived terms
  • battered child syndrome
  • battered person syndrome
  • battered sav
  • battered woman syndrome
  • battering ram
  • battering train
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Etymology 2

From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”). Doublet of batture.

Noun

batter (countable and uncountable, plural batters)

  1. (cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.
  2. (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
    Synonyms: bender, binge
  3. A paste of clay or loam.
  4. (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
Derived terms
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Etymology 3

Unknown.

Verb

batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

  1. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

Noun

batter (plural batters)

  1. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
Derived terms
  • batter rule
Translations

Etymology 4

bat +‎ -er (agent noun suffix).

Noun

batter (plural batters)

  1. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
    Synonyms: hitter, batsman (rare)
  2. (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
  3. (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
  4. (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
Synonyms
  • (all cricket senses): batsman
Hypernyms
  • (all cricket senses): cricketer
Hyponyms
  • (all cricket senses): batsman, batswoman
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations

Anagrams

  • Tarbet, tabret

Danish

Verb

batter

  1. present of batte

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

batter

  1. inflection of batteren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.te/

Verb

batter

  1. (sports) to bat

Conjugation

Italian

Verb

batter (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of battere

Derived terms

  • in un batter d'occhio

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German bittar, from Proto-West Germanic *bit(t)r, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz. Cognate with German bitter, English bitter, Dutch bitter, Icelandic bitur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbater/, [ˈbɑ.tɐ]

Adjective

batter (masculine batteren, neuter battert, comparative méi batter, superlative am battersten)

  1. bitter

Declension

See also

  • (tastes) Geschmaach; batter, salzeg, sauer, séiss (Category: lb:Taste)

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • batar (Sutsilvan)

Etymology

From Latin battere, from earlier battuere.

Verb

batter

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun) To beat.

Derived terms

  • batta-ovs
  • battasenda

Scots

Noun

batter (uncountable)

  1. A batter.
  2. A glue; paste.

Source: wiktionary.org