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

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6-letter words (5 found)

ARTIST,SITTAR,STRAIT,STRATI,TRAITS,

5-letter words (16 found)

AIRTS,ARTIS,ASTIR,RAITS,RITTS,SITAR,STAIR,START,STRIA,TAITS,TARSI,TARTS,TIARS,TRAIT,TRATS,TRIST,

4-letter words (29 found)

AIRS,AIRT,AITS,ARIS,ARTI,ARTS,ITAS,RAIS,RAIT,RAST,RATS,RIAS,RITS,RITT,SAIR,SARI,SATI,STAR,STAT,STIR,TAIS,TAIT,TARS,TART,TATS,TIAR,TITS,TRAT,TSAR,

3-letter words (26 found)

AIR,AIS,AIT,ARS,ART,ATS,ATT,ITA,ITS,RAI,RAS,RAT,RIA,RIT,SAI,SAR,SAT,SIR,SIT,SRI,TAI,TAR,TAS,TAT,TIS,TIT,

2-letter words (10 found)

AI,AR,AS,AT,IS,IT,SI,ST,TA,TI,

You can make 86 words from strait according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of strait

strait

Alternative forms

  • streit (obsolete)
  • streight (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (modern form étroit), from Latin strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō (“compress, tighten”). Doublet of stretto and strict.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɹeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt
  • Homophone: straight

Adjective

strait (comparative straiter, superlative straitest)

  1. (archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.
    • 1894, Ernest Dowson, “To One in Bedlam” in The Second Book of The Rhymers’ Club, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 35,[2]
      Those scentless wisps of straw, that miserably line
      His strait, caged universe, whereat the dull world stares,
      Pedant and pitiful.
  2. (archaic) Righteous, strict.
  3. (obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting.
  4. (obsolete) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
  5. (obsolete) Difficult; distressful.
    • 18th c., Thomas Secker, Sermons on Several Subjects, 2nd edition, 1771, Volume III, Sermon XI, p. 253,[3]
      But to make your strait Circumstances yet straiter, for the Sake of idle Gratifications, and distress yourselves in Necessaries, only to indulge in Trifles and Vanities, delicate Food, shewish Dress, ensnaring Diversions, is every Way wrong.
  6. (obsolete) Parsimonious; stingy; mean.
  7. Obsolete spelling of straight.

Usage notes

The adjective is often confused with straight.

Derived terms

  • strait-handed
  • straitjacket
  • strait-laced
  • straitwaistcoat

Translations

Noun

strait (plural straits)

  1. (geography) A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
  2. A narrow pass, passage or street.
  3. A neck of land; an isthmus.
  4. (often in the plural) A difficult position.
    • 1684, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 420,[4]
      […] let no man, who owns the Belief of a Providence, grow desperate or forlorn, under any Calamity or Strait whatsoever […]

Usage notes

The geographical term straits used in the name of a location (as a proper noun) does not necessarily imply the existence of multiple straits; see for instance the Bering Straits, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Straits of Hormuz, the Straits of Juan de Fuca, the Straits of Magellan, the Straits of Malacca, the Sunda Straits, the Taiwan Straits, etc.

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Verb

strait (third-person singular simple present straits, present participle straiting, simple past and past participle straited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To confine; put to difficulties.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To tighten.

Adverb

strait (comparative straiter, superlative straitest)

  1. (obsolete) Strictly; rigorously.

See also

  • Category:en:Straits

Further reading

  • strait on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “strait”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “strait”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Rattis, artist, atrist, ittars, star it, strati, traits

Source: wiktionary.org