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Is throat a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word throat is a Scrabble US word. The word throat is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is throat a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word throat is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Yes. The word throat is a Words With Friends word. The word throat is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

THROAT,

5-letter words (6 found)

OTTAR,TAROT,TORAH,TORTA,TROAT,TROTH,

4-letter words (19 found)

HARO,HART,HOAR,HORA,OATH,RATH,RATO,ROTA,TAHR,TARO,TART,TATH,THAR,THAT,THRO,TORA,TORT,TRAT,TROT,

3-letter words (20 found)

ART,ATT,HAO,HAT,HOA,HOT,OAR,OAT,ORA,ORT,RAH,RAT,RHO,ROT,TAO,TAR,TAT,THO,TOR,TOT,

2-letter words (9 found)

AH,AR,AT,HA,HO,OH,OR,TA,TO,

You can make 55 words from throat according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of throat

throat

Alternative forms

  • throate, throte (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”) (etymology 2), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Swedish trut.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈθɹəʊt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈθɹoʊt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt

Noun

throat (plural throats)

  1. The front part of the neck.
  2. The gullet or windpipe.
  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
  4. Station throat.
  6. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
  7. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  8. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
  9. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
  10. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
  11. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Synonyms

  • (gullet): esophagus (US), gullet, oesophagus (British)
  • (windpipe): trachea, windpipe
  • (narrow opening in a vessel): neck, bottleneck (of a bottle)

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "end of a gaff next to the mast"): peak

Derived terms

Related terms

  • throttle

Translations

Verb

throat (third-person singular simple present throats, present participle throating, simple past and past participle throated)

  1. (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
    to throat threats
  2. (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
  3. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

Further reading

  • throat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Throat (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “throat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “throat”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Source: wiktionary.org