SCATT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SCATT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCATT?
| 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 SCATT is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCATT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCATT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SCATT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 69,711.
What does SCATT mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalScotsregional
A land tax formerly paid by landholders in Orkney and Shetland, originally imposed by Norse rulers.
Scatt reached Orkney and Shetland through Norse rule, when the islands paid tribute directly to the kings of Norway rather than to any English or Scottish crown, and the tax survived in weakened form for centuries after the islands passed to Scotland in the fifteenth century. The word comes from the same Old Norse root as the Scandinavian skatt, still the ordinary modern word for tax in Norway and Sweden. Local landholders paid scatt in produce or coin according to the value of their land, recorded and assessed much like an early property tax. Historians now use scatt mainly when describing the distinctive Norse legal inheritance that set Orkney and Shetland apart from the rest of Scotland.
How SCATT is used
A historical term from Orkney and Shetland record-keeping; met in local history rather than in current tax law.
- Records show the crofter paid his scatt in barley rather than coin.
- Historians traced how scatt survived long after Norse rule ended in the islands.
- The laird collected scatt from every farm on the estate each autumn.
- Old charters list the exact scatt owed by each parish in Shetland.
- Islanders resented paying scatt to a distant king who rarely visited.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCATT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SCATT
The 5 tiles of SCATT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SCATT
Showing 24 of 41 words that begin with SCATT.
Words with SCATT inside
11 words contain SCATT in the middle. Words that start with SCATT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SCATT
Common questions about SCATT
- Is SCATT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCATT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCATT worth?
- SCATT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCATT mean?
- A land tax formerly paid by landholders in Orkney and Shetland, originally imposed by Norse rulers.
- What letters can be added to SCATT?
- SCATT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SCATT:
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