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Is mattock a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word mattock is a Scrabble US word. The word mattock is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

M3A1T1T1O1C3K5

Is mattock a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word mattock is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

M3A1T1T1O1C3K5

Is mattock a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word mattock is a Words With Friends word. The word mattock is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

M4A1T1T1O1C4K5

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7-letter words (1 found)

MATTOCK,

6-letter words (1 found)

TOMCAT,

5-letter words (1 found)

COTTA,

4-letter words (20 found)

AMOK,ATOC,ATOK,ATOM,CAMO,COAT,COMA,COTT,MACK,MAKO,MATT,MOAT,MOCK,MOTT,OCTA,OKTA,TACK,TACO,TACT,TOCK,

3-letter words (26 found)

ACT,ATT,CAM,CAT,COT,KAM,KAT,KOA,MAC,MAK,MAT,MOA,MOC,MOT,OAK,OAT,OCA,OKA,OMA,TAK,TAM,TAO,TAT,TOC,TOM,TOT,

2-letter words (10 found)

AM,AT,KA,KO,MA,MO,OK,OM,TA,TO,

You can make 59 words from mattock according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mattock

mattock

Etymology

From Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettoc (“mattock, fork, trident”), from Proto-West Germanic *mattjuk (“mattock, ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”). Related to Old High German medela (“plough”), Middle High German metze, metz (“knife”), Latin mateola (“implement for digging in the soil”), Polish motyka (“hoe, mattock”), Russian моты́га (motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Lithuanian matikkas (“mattock”), Sanskrit मत्य (matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). More at mason.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmætək/
  • Rhymes: -ætək

Noun

mattock (plural mattocks)

  1. An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.

Descendants

  • → Irish: matóg
  • → Welsh: batog

Translations

Verb

mattock (third-person singular simple present mattocks, present participle mattocking, simple past and past participle mattocked)

  1. To cut or dig with a mattock.

See also

  • adze
  • hoe
  • pick
  • twibill

Further reading

  • Mattock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Category:Mattocks on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Middle English

Noun

mattock

  1. Alternative form of mattok

Source: wiktionary.org