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

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6-letter words (3 found)

RATTAN,TANTRA,TARTAN,

5-letter words (6 found)

ANTAR,ANTRA,ATTAR,RATAN,TATAR,TRANT,

4-letter words (10 found)

ANTA,ARNA,RANA,RANT,RATA,TANA,TARA,TARN,TART,TRAT,

3-letter words (10 found)

ANA,ANT,ART,ATT,NAT,RAN,RAT,TAN,TAR,TAT,

2-letter words (6 found)

AA,AN,AR,AT,NA,TA,

You can make 35 words from tartan according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tartan

tartan

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɑɹtn̩/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɑːtn̩/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tən

Etymology 1

Blend of Middle English tartaryn (“rich material”), from Middle French tartarin (“Tartar cloth”), and Middle French tiretaine (“cloth of mixed fibers”), from Old French tiret (“kind of cloth”), from tire (“oriental cloth of silk”), from Medieval Latin tyrius (“material from Tyre”), from Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”).

Noun

tartan (countable and uncountable, plural tartans)

  1. A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans and some Scottish families and institutions having their own distinctive patterns.
  2. The pattern associated with such material.
  3. An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
  4. Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
Derived terms
  • tartan noir
  • tartan tax
  • tartanization
  • tartanize
  • tartanry
Descendants
  • → Catalan: tartà
  • → Scottish Gaelic: tartan
Translations

Adjective

tartan (comparative more tartan, superlative most tartan)

  1. Having a pattern like a tartan.
  2. (humorous) Scottish.
Translations

Verb

tartan (third-person singular simple present tartans, present participle tartaning, simple past and past participle tartaned)

  1. (transitive) To clothe in tartan.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French tartane, from Italian tartana, of uncertain origin.

Alternative forms

  • tartana, tartane

Noun

tartan (plural tartans)

  1. A type of one-masted lateen-sailed vessel used in the Mediterranean.
    • 1877, Jules Verne, Ellen E. Frewer (translator), Hector Servadac, Part 2, Chapter X: Market Prices in Gallia,
      Hakkabut hereupon descended into the hold of the tartan, and soon returned, carrying ten packets of tobacco, each weighing one kilogramme, and securely fastened by strips of paper, labelled with the French Government stamp.
    • 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rodney Stone, Chapter IV: The Peace of Amiens,
      When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans, with wine, food, and powder.
  2. (historical) A kind of long covered carriage.
Translations

Anagrams

  • Rattan, Tatran, rattan, tantra

Danish

Etymology

From English tartan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tartan/, [ˈtˢɑːtˢan]

Noun

tartan n or c (singular definite tartanet or tartanen)

  1. tartan (woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern)
  2. tartan (synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.) [from 1969]

Related terms

  • skotskternet

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tartan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑr.tɑn/, (colloquial) /tɑrˈtɑn/
  • Hyphenation: tar‧tan

Noun

tartan n or m (plural tartans)

  1. tartan (woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of intersecting orthogonal coloured stripes, associated with Scottish Highlanders).
  2. A kilt or cloak made of tartan.

Usage notes

Neuter gender is usually preferred for the mass noun denoting the fabric while masculine is preferred for countable nouns, but the distinction is not observed as clearly for this word as it is for other terms that are both mass nouns and countable nouns.

Related terms

  • tierelantijn

French

Pronunciation

Noun

tartan m (plural tartans)

  1. tartan

Further reading

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

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtar.tan/
  • Rhymes: -artan
  • Syllabification: tar‧tan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tartan, from Middle English tartaryn, from Middle French tartarin, tiretaine, from Old French tiret, from tire, from Medieval Latin tyrius, from Latin Tyrus, from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤅𐤓 (ṣwr).

Noun

tartan m inan

  1. tartan (woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of intersecting orthogonal coloured stripes, associated with Scottish Highlanders)
  2. tartan (pattern associated with such material)
  3. clothing made of such fabric
  4. (athletics) tartan track (all-weather synthetic track surfacing made of polyurethane used for track and field competitions)
  5. (athletics, colloquial) tartan track (stadium or running track covered with such material)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

tartan f

  1. genitive plural of tartana

Further reading

  • tartan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tartan.

Noun

tartan n (plural tartane)

  1. tartan

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From English tartan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʰarˠʃtan/

Noun

tartan m (genitive singular tartain, plural tartain)

  1. tartan (woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern)

Declension

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Source: wiktionary.org