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Is scat a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word scat is a Scrabble US word. The word scat is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is scat a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word scat is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (4 found)

ACTS,CAST,CATS,SCAT,

3-letter words (6 found)

ACT,ATS,CAT,SAC,SAT,TAS,

2-letter words (4 found)

AS,AT,ST,TA,

You can make 14 words from scat according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of scat

scat csat sact asct cast acst scta csta stca tsca ctsa tcsa satc astc stac tsac atsc tasc cats acts ctas tcas atcs tacs

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Definitions and meaning of scat

scat

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skæt/
  • Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Middle English scet, schat, from Old English sceatt (“property, goods, owndom, wealth, treasure; payment, price, gift, bribe, tax, tribute, money, goods, reward, rent, a tithe; a piece of money, a coin; denarius, twentieth part of a shilling”) and Old Norse skattr (“wealth, treaure, tax, tribute, coin”); both from Proto-Germanic *skattaz (“cattle, kine, wealth, owndom, goods, hoard, treasure, geld, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *skatn-, *skat- (“to jump, skip, splash out”). Cognate with Scots scat (“tax, levy, charge, payment, bribe”), West Frisian skat (“treasure, darling”), Dutch schat (“treasure, hoard, darling, sweetheart”), German Schatz (“treasure, hoard, wealth, store, darling, sweetheart”), Swedish skatt (“treasure, tax, duty”), Icelandic skattur (“tax, tribute”), Latin scateō (“gush, team, bubble forth, abound”).

Alternative forms

  • scatt, skatt

Noun

scat (plural scats)

  1. A tax; tribute.
  2. (UK dialectal) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
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Etymology 2

Origin uncertain. Both the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster suggest derivation from Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”), compare English scato-, but Random House Dictionary suggests that the popular character of the word makes this unlikely. Perhaps from English dialectal scat (“to scatter, fling, bespatter”), or an alteration of shit, which is also used for "drugs, heroin".

Alternative forms

  • skat (brisk shower of rain)
  • skatt (brisk shower of rain)

Noun

scat (countable and uncountable, plural scats)

  1. (biology) Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
    • 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
      Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.
  2. (slang) Heroin.
  3. (slang, obsolete) Whiskey.
  4. (slang, pornography) Coprophilia.
    • 1988, “Pete”, quoted in Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 183:
      Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth.
  5. (UK, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
Synonyms
  • (excrement): See Thesaurus:feces
  • (heroin): shit, scag; see also Thesaurus:heroin
  • (rain driven by wind): See Thesaurus:storm
Related terms
  • scatology (dung)
  • scatological
Translations

Etymology 3

Probably imitative.

Noun

scat (plural scats)

  1. (music, jazz) Scat singing.

Verb

scat (third-person singular simple present scats, present participle scatting, simple past and past participle scatted)

  1. (music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.

Etymology 4

From scoot, from the root of shoot. Alternatively, from the expression quicker than scat (“in a great hurry”), perhaps representing a hiss followed by the word cat. Compare Swedish schas (“shoo, begone”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Verb

scat (third-person singular simple present scats, present participle scatting, simple past and past participle scatted)

  1. (colloquial) To leave quickly.
    Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.

Interjection

scat

  1. (colloquial) An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.
    Scat! Go on! Get out of here!
Translations

Etymology 5

From the taxonomic name of the family.

Noun

scat (plural scats)

  1. Any fish in the family Scatophagidae

References

Anagrams

  • -cast, ACTs, ATCs, ATSC, Acts, CATs, CTAs, Cast, Cats, STCA, TACS, TCAS, TCAs, TSCA, acts, cast, cats

French

Noun

scat m (plural scats)

  1. (music) scat

Further reading

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

Old Saxon

Noun

scat m

  1. Alternative spelling of skat

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English scat.

Pronunciation

  • (Nordestino) IPA(key): /iʃ.ˈkɛ.ti/
  • Homophones: sketch (Brazil), esquete (Brazil)

Noun

scat m (uncountable)

  1. scat, coprophilia (sexual interest in feces)
    Synonym: coprofilia

Source: wiktionary.org