PHAT is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. PHAT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PHAT?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PHAT is to know. It scores 9 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PHAT
No single letter turns PHAT into another word.
How PHAT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in PHAT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What does PHAT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
slang
Excellent, an approving slang term from 1990s hip hop culture, deliberately misspelled to avoid the word fat.
Phat is a deliberate misspelling that keeps the compliment apart from fat, and it belongs to a narrow window — roughly the 1990s — when it was in every music magazine. Several origins are claimed for it and none is settled; what is certain is that the spelling did the work, since it only reads as praise on the page.
How PHAT is used
Before and after the noun alike — a phat beat, the track is phat. Dated rather than current.
- The bass line was phat and the rest was filler.
- Phat was on every record sleeve for about five years.
- He still says phat and knows exactly how it sounds.
- A phat beat carried a thin song a long way.
- The word phat dates a magazine faster than the photographs do.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHAT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PHAT
The 4 tiles of PHAT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PHAT
4 longer words begin with PHAT.
Words with PHAT inside
Showing 24 of 97 words that contain PHAT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PHAT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PHAT
Common questions about PHAT
- Is PHAT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PHAT, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PHAT worth?
- PHAT is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PHAT mean?
- Excellent, an approving slang term from 1990s hip hop culture, deliberately misspelled to avoid the word fat.
- What letters can be added to PHAT?
- No single letter can be added to PHAT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of PHAT:
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