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Is vat a Scrabble word?

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

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

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3-letter words (2 found)

TAV,VAT,

2-letter words (2 found)

AT,TA,

You can make 4 words from vat according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of vat

vat

Etymology

From Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”).

Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /væt/
  • Rhymes: -æt

Noun

vat (plural vats)

  1. A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
    a vat of liquid
    a vat of acid
    a vat of wine
    a vat of olives
    a vat of fat
    a vat of glue
  2. A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
  3. (Roman Catholicism) A vessel for holding holy water.
  4. (dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.

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Verb

vat (third-person singular simple present vats, present participle vatting, simple past and past participle vatted)

  1. (transitive) To put into a vat.
  2. (transitive) To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.

Adjective

vat (not comparable)

  1. Designating a vat dye.

Anagrams

  • ATV, TVA, VTA, tav, vta

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fat/

Etymology 1

From Dutch vatten.

Verb

vat (present vat, present participle vattende, past participle gevat)

  1. to take
  2. to grasp

Etymology 2

From Dutch vat.

Noun

vat (plural vate, diminutive vaatjie)

  1. barrel

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vātēs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈbat]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈvat]

Noun

vat m (plural vats)

  1. vates (divinely inspired poet or seer)

Related terms

  • vaticini

Danish

Etymology

From German Watte

Noun

vat

  1. cotton wool

Derived terms

  • vatpind
  • vattet

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɑt/
  • Rhymes: -ɑt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vat, from Old Dutch *fat, from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą.

Noun

vat n (plural vaten, diminutive vatje n or vaatje n)

  1. barrel, tank
  2. (biology) vessel
Synonyms
  • ton
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: vat
  • Negerhollands: vat

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch vat, ultimately from the source of Etymology 1 above, as the Middle Dutch sense was "pot, object to put something in." Related to vatten.

Noun

vat m (uncountable)

  1. grip, both literal and figurative
    geen vat krijgen op ... — not being able to get a grip on ...
Derived terms
  • handvat
  • vatten

Verb

vat

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

Volapük

Etymology

From German Wasser, English water, and Dutch water.

Noun

vat (nominative plural vats)

  1. water

Declension

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vat/

Adjective

vat

  1. fat

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 74

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