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Is clart a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word clart is a Scrabble US word. The word clart is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is clart a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word clart is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

C3L1A1R1T1

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5-letter words (1 found)

CLART,

4-letter words (4 found)

CARL,CART,CLAT,TALC,

3-letter words (12 found)

ACT,ALT,ARC,ART,CAL,CAR,CAT,LAC,LAR,LAT,RAT,TAR,

2-letter words (5 found)

AL,AR,AT,LA,TA,

You can make 22 words from clart according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of clart

clart

English

Alternative forms

  • clairt, clort

Etymology

From Middle English *clart, found in the verb biclarten (“to cover or smear with dirt”). Cognate with Scots clart, clairt (“to besmear”), Scots clarty (“dirty”). Further origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klɑːt/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

Noun

clart (plural clarts)

  1. A daub.
    a clart of grease
  2. (now Scotland, Northern England) Sticky mud, mire or filth.
  3. (Geordie, derogatory) A person who is unclean.
  4. (Geordie, derogatory) A fool.
  5. Unwanted stuff; junk; clutter; rubbish; stuff that is in the way.
    I need to get rid of all this clart. (Clearing unwanted items from a table top)

Derived terms

  • beclart
  • clarty

References

  • Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “clart”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
  • Frank Graham, editor (1987), “CLART”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
  • “Clart”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎[2], archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

Verb

clart (third-person singular simple present clarts, present participle clarting, simple past and past participle clarted)

  1. (transitive, now Scotland, Northern England) To daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty.

Source: wiktionary.org