Spate is valid Scrabble Word

Is spate a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is spate valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for SPATE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a flood, a surge, also SPAIT, SPEAT
a large number of similar things coming in quick succession
a sudden flood in a river.
large number of things happening within a period of time
A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
(often followed by `of\') a large number or amount or extent
a sudden forceful flow
the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a freshet

Words related to SPATE

spait7 spates8 speat7

Words that contain SPATE

spates8 bespate11 cuspate11 crispate12 cuspated13 crispated14

How to use SPATE in a sentence

I must keep their souls easy, for once they are scared there will be such a spate of letters to New York as will weaken the courage of our Northern brethren.
A boy dashed toward them saying that one of his schoolmates had fallen into the rushing water, and that the full spate of the Aray was carrying him away down to the sea.
Ay, I hef seen tons of coal waiting for them at Invershin for near a fortnight when there wass a heavy spate on the ruvver.
Dick had achieved success, but his clothes were on one side of a roaring river in spate, and he and the dead stag were on the other.
The thaw has filled every depression with a sullen gray-black spate, and out on the levels the water lies six inches deep, in stretch upon stretch, as far as the eye can reach.
The river then divides, the left arm racing in spate down to the mill, the right turning off through a channel blasted out of the rock for the passage of timber going down.
Our companies having been brought up to strength, a spate of promotions would follow.
He could boast that he was beaten not by columns but by two rivers in spate.

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