QUAT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. QUAT is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept QUAT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUAT is to know. It scores 13 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUAT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUAT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in QUAT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What does QUAT mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritish
An informal British word for a person regarded as annoying or worthless.
Quat began as a dialect word for squashing something flat, and the same root gave a noun for a squashed pustule or pimple. From there speakers stretched it to describe a person as small and irritating as a squeezed spot, and the insult sense is the one still used in casual British speech.
How QUAT is used
Heard mainly in colloquial British speech as a mild insult rather than in formal writing.
- Stop being such a quat and help us carry the boxes.
- He called his neighbour a quat after the argument over the fence.
- Nobody invited the quat to the party.
- She laughed off the insult and told him not to act like a quat.
- The coach benched the quat for arguing with the referee.
- Even his friends admitted he could be a real quat sometimes.
- The old dictionary lists quat among words for a squashed, worthless thing.
- Kids on the estate used quat as their favourite playground insult.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUAT and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see QUAT
- Quat traces back to an older dialect verb meaning to squash or beat something flat.
- Older dictionaries also record quat as a name for a squashed pustule or pimple on the skin.
Words starting with QUAT
Showing 24 of 39 words that begin with QUAT.
Words ending in QUAT
8 words end in QUAT. Useful as a back hook: play QUAT onto a word already on the board.
Words with QUAT inside
Showing 24 of 125 words that contain QUAT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with QUAT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUAT
Common questions about QUAT
- Is QUAT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and QUAT is not in it.
- How many points is QUAT worth?
- QUAT is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUAT mean?
- An informal British word for a person regarded as annoying or worthless.
- What letters can be added to QUAT?
- QUAT takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of QUAT:
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