EAT is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. EAT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 3 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EAT?
| 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: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EAT is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 13 hooks, and its letters make up 9.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EAT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EAT scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in EAT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 250.
What stands out about EAT
- The same 3 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does EAT mean in Scrabble?
verb
To take food into the mouth and swallow it.
Eat has an irregular past that belongs to a very old pattern, and the participle keeps an ending most verbs have lost. English built hundreds of phrases on it — eat your words, eat humble pie — and hardly any of them are about food.
How EAT is used
Eating, eaten. The past tense is irregular.
- They eat at six whether anybody is hungry or not.
- The verb eat keeps an old irregular pattern.
- She is eating standing up again.
- Eat your words is a phrase about apology, not food.
- Nothing in the house is worth eating.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EAT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of EAT
The 3 tiles of EAT in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with EAT
18 longer words begin with EAT.
Words ending in EAT
Showing 24 of 110 words that end in EAT. Useful as a back hook: play EAT onto a word already on the board.
Words with EAT inside
Showing 24 of 1431 words that contain EAT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with EAT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in EAT
Common questions about EAT
- Is EAT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EAT, where it scores 3 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EAT worth?
- EAT is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EAT mean?
- To take food into the mouth and swallow it.
- What letters can be added to EAT?
- EAT takes 13 hooks: 11 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of EAT:
Open EAT in the Word Finder