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Is goat a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word goat is a Scrabble US word. The word goat is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is goat a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word goat is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

GOAT,TOGA,

3-letter words (8 found)

AGO,GAT,GOA,GOT,OAT,TAG,TAO,TOG,

2-letter words (5 found)

AG,AT,GO,TA,TO,

You can make 15 words from goat according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of goat

goat

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡəʊt/
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /ɡəwt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɡoʊt/, [ɡoʊʔt̚]
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /ɡoʊt/, [ɡoʊʔt̚], [ɡoːt]
  • (Scotland, Northumbria) IPA(key): /ɡoːt/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɡəʉt/, [ɡəʉt], [ɡɐʉt]
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɡɐʉt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt

Etymology 1

From Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".

Noun

goat (countable and uncountable, plural goats)

  2. A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
    1. (uncountable) The meat of the aforementioned animal.
  3. (slang) A lecherous man.
  4. (informal) A scapegoat.
    • 1997, "1997 World Series", Game 7, bottom 11th inning, TV broadcast on NBC Sports, early morning October 27, 1997; words by Bob Costas
      Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series, now cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns.
  5. (slang) A Pontiac GTO car.
  6. (speech recognition) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
  7. A fool, loser, or object of ridicule.
  8. (roller derby) A blocker who is isolated behind the opposing team's blockers, so as to slow down the pack.
Synonyms
  • (lecherous man): See also Thesaurus:libertine
  • (scapegoat): See also Thesaurus:scapegoat
Holonyms
  • (group of goats): tribe, herd
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Abenaki: kots (from "goats")
  • → Marshallese: koot
  • → Rotokas: goti
  • → Tongan: koti, kosi
    • → Samoan: ʻoti
      • → Rotuman: ʻoti
      • → Tokelauan: oti
Translations
See also
  • chevon
  • ewe
  • herd
  • hircine
  • kid
  • ram
  • tribe
  • Appendix:collective nouns objects-G

Verb

goat (third-person singular simple present goats, present participle goating, simple past and past participle goated)

  1. (transitive) To allow goats to feed on.
  2. (transitive) To scapegoat.
  3. (transitive, roller derby) To isolate (an opposing blocker) behind one's own blockers, so as to slow down the pack.

Etymology 2

Noun

goat (plural goats)

  1. (acronym) Alternative letter-case form of GOAT (“greatest of all time”).

Etymology 3

Noun

goat (plural goats)

  1. (possibly obsolete) Alternative form of gote (“sluice, waterway”).

Anagrams

  • Gøta, TOGA, Toga, atgo, toga

Namo

Noun

goat

  1. bone

References

  • transnewguinea.org, citing McElhanon, KA & Voorhoeve, CL. 1970. The Trans-New Guinea Phylum: Explorations in deep-level genetic relationships. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Swedish

Verb

goat

  1. supine of goa

West Frisian

Noun

goat c (plural goaten, diminutive goatsje)

  1. alternative form of goate

Source: wiktionary.org