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Is neat a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word neat is a Scrabble US word. The word neat is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (4 found)

ANTE,ETNA,NEAT,TANE,

3-letter words (13 found)

ANE,ANT,ATE,EAN,EAT,ETA,NAE,NAT,NET,TAE,TAN,TEA,TEN,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AN,AT,EA,EN,ET,NA,NE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 28 words from neat according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of neat

neat enat naet anet eant aent neta enta ntea tnea etna tena nate ante ntae tnae atne tane eatn aetn etan tean aten taen

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Definitions and meaning of neat

neat

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈniːt/
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology 1

From Middle English nete, net, nette (> Modern net "after deductions, unadulterated"), from Anglo-Norman neit (“good, desirable, clean”), a variant of Old French net, nette ("clean, clear, pure"; from Latin nitidus (“gleaming”), from niteō (“I shine”)). Cognate with German nett (“nice, kind”).

Adjective

neat (comparative neater, superlative neatest)

  1. Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
  2. Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
    • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 464-465,[1]
      A cup of neate wine of Orleance,
      That never came neer the brewers of England.
    • 1932, Winston Churchill, Painting as a Pastime, New York: Cornerstone Library, 1965,[3]
      At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used ‘neat.’
  3. (chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
  4. (archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
  5. Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
  6. Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
  7. Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.
  8. (Canada, US, colloquial) Good, excellent, desirable.
  9. Obsolete form of net (“remaining after expenses or deductions”).
Usage notes

In bartending, neat has the formal meaning “a liquor pour straight from the bottle into a glass, at room temperature, without ice or chilling”. This is contrasted with on the rocks (“over ice”), and with drinks that are chilled but strained (stirred over ice to chill, but poured through a strainer so that there is no ice in the glass), which is formally referred to as up. However, the terminology is a point of significant confusion, with neat, up, straight up, and straight being used by bar patrons (and some bartenders) variously and ambiguously to mean either “unchilled” or “chilled” (but without ice in the glass), and hence clarification is often required.

Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of "undiluted liquor or cocktail"): on the rocks
Coordinate terms
  • (undiluted liquor or cocktail): straight up, up, straight
Derived terms
Translations

Interjection

neat

  1. Used to signify a job well done.
  2. Used to signify approval.

Noun

neat (plural neats)

  1. (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.

Etymology 2

From Middle English nete, neat, from Old English nēat (“animal, beast, ox, cow, cattle”), from Proto-West Germanic *naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą (“foredeal, profit, property, livestock”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with Dutch noot (“cow, cattle”, in compounds), dialectal German Noß (“livestock”), Alemannic German Nooss (“young sheep or goat”), Swedish nöt (“cattle”), Icelandic naut (“cattle, bull”) and Faroese neyt (“cattle”). More at note.

Noun

neat (plural neats or neat)

  1. (archaic) A bull or cow.

Noun

neat pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic) Cattle collectively.
Derived terms
  • neatbeast
  • neatherd
  • neathouse
  • neatfoot, neatsfoot
  • neatish
Related terms
  • geneat
Translations

References

Anagrams

  • Ante, Aten, Etan, Etna, Nate, Tean, Tena, anet, ante, ante-, etna, neta, ta'en

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Noun

néat

  1. basket

Latin

Verb

neat

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of neō

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą. Cognate with Old Frisian nāt, Old Saxon nōt, Dutch noot, Old High German nōz (dialectal German Nos), Old Norse naut.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /næ͜ɑːt/

Noun

nēat n

  1. cow, ox; animal

Declension

Synonyms

  • deor

Related terms

  • geneat
  • nieten

Descendants

  • English: neat

West Frisian

Etymology

Negative form of eat. From Old Frisian nāt, nāut, nāwet. Compare English naught.

Pronoun

neat

  1. nothing

Further reading

  • “neat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org