CARATE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CARATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CARATE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CARATE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CARATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
caratesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CARATE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CARATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What does CARATE mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalrare
A tropical skin disease, known in most modern sources as pinta, caused by a bacterium and marked by patches of discolored, scaling skin.
Carate is an older name for pinta, an infection caused by a bacterium related to the one that causes syphilis, though carate spreads through skin contact rather than sexually. The disease produces colored patches on the skin that change over time, often starting reddish and later turning blue, gray or white as the infection progresses. It has historically been recorded mainly in rural parts of Central and South America, where poverty and limited access to treatment allowed it to persist. The word carate appears today mostly in older medical literature and dictionaries rather than in current clinical practice, where pinta is the usual name.
How CARATE is used
A rare, mainly historical medical term, largely replaced by pinta in modern usage.
- The old medical text described carate as common in remote villages.
- Doctors once diagnosed carate by the changing color of the skin patches.
- Modern references usually call carate by its other name, pinta.
- The outbreak of carate was traced to a single rural community.
- Few physicians today have ever seen a case of carate firsthand.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CARATE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CARATE
The 6 tiles of CARATE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CARATE
1 longer words begin with CARATE.
Shorter words from the letters in CARATE
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Common questions about CARATE
- Is CARATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CARATE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CARATE worth?
- CARATE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CARATE mean?
- A tropical skin disease, known in most modern sources as pinta, caused by a bacterium and marked by patches of discolored, scaling skin.
- What letters can be added to CARATE?
- CARATE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CARATE:
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