SHOAT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SHOAT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHOAT?
| 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 SHOAT is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHOAT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
shoatsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHOAT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHOAT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about SHOAT
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 SHOAT mean in Scrabble?
noun
A young pig, especially one that has recently been weaned from its mother.
Farmers use shoat to mark a specific stage in a pig's early life, after it has stopped nursing but before it has grown into a full-sized hog, distinguishing it from a newborn piglet still feeding from the sow. The word appears mainly in American rural and farming speech, where raising a shoat to market weight is a familiar seasonal task. Older sources also record the spellings shote and shotte for the same young animal, though shoat remains the more common form today. A shoat typically needs careful feeding once weaned, since it must adjust from milk to solid feed during this stage of growth.
How SHOAT is used
Used mainly in American farming and rural speech for a young, recently weaned pig.
- The farmer moved the shoat into a separate pen after weaning.
- A hungry shoat squealed at the gate for its feed.
- They sold the shoat at the county market that autumn.
- The litter included one small shoat that struggled to gain weight.
- She raised the shoat on scraps and grain through the summer.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHOAT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHOAT
The 5 tiles of SHOAT in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SHOAT
1 longer words begin with SHOAT.
Shorter words from the letters in SHOAT
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Common questions about SHOAT
- Is SHOAT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHOAT, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHOAT worth?
- SHOAT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHOAT mean?
- A young pig, especially one that has recently been weaned from its mother.
- What letters can be added to SHOAT?
- SHOAT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHOAT:
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