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Is cattle a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word cattle is a Scrabble US word. The word cattle is worth 8 points in Scrabble:
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Is cattle a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word cattle is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:
C3A1T1T1L1E1
Is cattle a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word cattle is a Words With Friends word. The word cattle is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 58 words from cattle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
From Middle English catel, from Anglo-Norman catel (“personal property”), from Old Northern French (compare French cheptel, Old French chetel, chatel, also English chattel) from Medieval Latin capitāle, from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (whence also capital, from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”)). For the sense evolution, compare pecuniary and fee. Also compare Russian поголо́вье (pogolóvʹje, “total number of livestock”) from Russian голова́ (golová, “head”). Doublet of capital and chattel.
cattle pl (normally plural, singular cattle)
For the animals themselves, "cattle" is normally only used in the plural.
There is no universally accepted singular generic word for "cattle", although the term cattlebeast is used in some regions, and there is the archaic neat. When a precise formal term is required, constructions such as "domestic bovine" or "domestic bovine animal" can be used. For many people, only sex-specific words such as "bull" and "cow" are used for adults, "calf" for the young, etc., though especially children will use "cow" for all three (as in cowboy).
Where the sex is unknown, "cow" is sometimes used (although properly a cow is only an adult female).
The phrase "head of cattle" may be used without regard for sex. Chiefly in Indian English, this has also given rise to the compound cattlehead.
Occasionally "cattle" may be found in singular use: