OAT is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. OAT 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 OAT?
| 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: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OAT is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 8 hooks, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OAT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OAT scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in OAT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 374.
What does OAT mean in Scrabble?
noun
A cereal grain used for food and for fodder.
Oat is nearly always plural in use, and the singular survives mostly inside oatmeal and in dictionaries. It grows where wheat will not, which is why it fed Scotland and the north while the south ate bread.
How OAT is used
Usually plural: oats. The singular is rare.
- A field of oats ripens later than one of wheat.
- The word oat is almost always used in the plural.
- Oats grow where wheat will not.
- Two sacks of oats and a horse that prefers hay.
- An oat on its own appears in dictionaries and not in speech.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OAT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OAT
The 3 tiles of OAT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OAT
15 longer words begin with OAT.
Words ending in OAT
Showing 24 of 100 words that end in OAT. Useful as a back hook: play OAT onto a word already on the board.
Words with OAT inside
Showing 24 of 399 words that contain OAT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with OAT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OAT
Common questions about OAT
- Is OAT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OAT, where it scores 3 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OAT worth?
- OAT is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OAT mean?
- A cereal grain used for food and for fodder.
- What letters can be added to OAT?
- OAT takes 8 hooks: 5 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of OAT:
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