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Is spat a Scrabble word?

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

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Is spat a Scrabble UK word?

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

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4-letter words (6 found)

APTS,PAST,PATS,SPAT,STAP,TAPS,

3-letter words (11 found)

APT,ASP,ATS,PAS,PAT,PST,SAP,SAT,SPA,TAP,TAS,

2-letter words (5 found)

AS,AT,PA,ST,TA,

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

Definitions and meaning of spat

spat

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spæt/
    • Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Old English spittan, spætan.

Verb

spat

  1. simple past and past participle of spit

Etymology 2

Uncertain; perhaps related to spit.

Noun

spat (countable and uncountable, plural spats)

  1. The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
  2. A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
Translations

Verb

spat (third-person singular simple present spats, present participle spatting, simple past and past participle spatted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To spawn, used of shellfish as above.

Etymology 3

Shortening of spatterdash, from spatter + dash. 1779.

Noun

spat (plural spats)

  2. (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
    Coordinate term: gaiter
  3. (automotive, UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
    Synonym: (US) fender skirt
  4. (aviation) A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.
Translations

Etymology 4

1804. American English, probably imitative.

Noun

spat (plural spats)

  1. A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
Translations

Verb

spat (third-person singular simple present spats, present participle spatting, simple past and past participle spatted)

  1. (originally US, intransitive) To quarrel or argue pettily briefly.
Translations

Further reading

  • James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Spat”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

Etymology 5

Attested from 1823.

Noun

spat (plural spats)

  1. A light blow with something flat.
Translations

Verb

spat (third-person singular simple present spats, present participle spatting, simple past and past participle spatted)

  1. (transitive and intransitive) To strike with a spattering sound.
  2. (US, dialect) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
Translations

Etymology 6

From Latin spatium (“space”).

Noun

spat (plural spats)

  1. An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.

Anagrams

  • ATSP, PTSA, TAPs, past, ap'ts, PATs, Apts, TAPS, PSAT, taps, APTs, apts., ATPs, TPAs, ptas., Pats, stap, PTAs, pats, APTS, apts, Taps

Amis

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

spat

  1. four

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German spat. Compare German Spat and Swedish spatt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spat/, [sb̥ad̥]

Noun

spat c (singular definite spatten, not used in plural form)

  1. spavin (disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones)
  2. få spat – get annoyed or angry

Derived terms

  • spattet

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɑt/
  • Hyphenation: spat
  • Rhymes: -ɑt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spat.

Noun

spat m (plural spatten)

  1. (obsolete) blowgun
    Synonyms: blaaspijp, blaasroer

Etymology 2

From spatten.

Noun

spat m (plural spatten, diminutive spatje n)

  1. spot, speckle, stain
Derived terms
  • bloedspat
Descendants
  • → Papiamentu: spat

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

spat

  1. inflection of spatten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

  • past, stap, taps

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [spat]

Verb

spat

  1. supine of spaś

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

spat

  1. alternative form of spȁti

Swedish

Noun

spat

  1. (colloquial) definite singular of spad

Taroko

Etymology

From Proto-Atayalic *səpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

spat

  1. four

Source: wiktionary.org