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6-letter words (1 found)

CHATON,

5-letter words (11 found)

ACTON,ANCHO,CANTO,CHANT,CHOTA,COTAN,NACHO,NATCH,NOTCH,OCTAN,TACHO,

4-letter words (18 found)

ATOC,CANT,CHAO,CHAT,CHON,COAT,COTH,HANT,NACH,NOAH,NOTA,OATH,OCTA,TACH,TACO,TANH,THAN,THON,

3-letter words (28 found)

ACH,ACT,ANT,CAN,CAT,CHA,CON,COT,HAN,HAO,HAT,HOA,HOC,HON,HOT,NAH,NAT,NOH,NOT,NTH,OAT,OCA,OCH,TAN,TAO,THO,TOC,TON,

2-letter words (12 found)

AH,AN,AT,CH,HA,HO,NA,NO,OH,ON,TA,TO,

You can make 70 words from chaton according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of chaton

chaton

Etymology

Borrowed from French.

Noun

chaton (plural chatons)

  1. Collet, bezel (around a jewel, on a ring).
  2. (watches) chaton (movement component: a circular piece of metal inserted in a round hole, in which a ruby is inserted. The ruby is used as bearing for the pin (or pivot) of a shaft of a wheel)

Anagrams

  • Cần Thơ, cantho-, chonta

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃa.tɔ̃/

Etymology 1

First attested in Old French, from chat +‎ -on

Noun

chaton m (plural chatons, feminine chatonne)

  1. kitten, kitty (baby cat)
    Synonyms: minet, minou
  2. catkin

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French chaton, chaston, from Old French chastun (“the projecting part of a ring embedded with a stone”), from Frankish *kastō (“box, case”), from Proto-Germanic *kastô, *kasô, *kasą, *kazą (“vessel, container, pitcher, barrel”).

Cognate with Old High German kasto (“box, case”) (Modern German Kasten), Dutch kast (“cupboard, case”), Old English castenere (“cabinet, chest”), Old Norse kass, kassi (“basket”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍃 (kas, “vessel, container”), Old High German char (“vessel, bowl, tray, trough”), Middle Low German kar (“vessel, basket”), Old Norse ker (“vessel, container”).

Noun

chaton m (plural chatons)

  1. collet, bezel (around a jewel, on a ring)
  2. (by extension) the jewel itself (around which the collet is, on a ring)
Descendants
  • → Catalan: xató
  • → English: chaton

Further reading

  • “chaton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org