SPRAT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SPRAT 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 SPRAT?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPRAT is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPRAT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
spratsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SPRAT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SPRAT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about SPRAT
- The same 5 tiles also spell 6 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 SPRAT mean in Scrabble?
noun
A small, silvery herring-like fish found in shoals in coastal waters of the northeastern Atlantic, often eaten whole and smoked or fried.
A sprat rarely grows longer than a few centimetres, and because it is so small it is usually cooked and eaten whole, bones and all, either fried fresh, tinned in oil or smoked much like a small kipper. Fishing fleets net sprats in huge shoals, and much of the catch historically went toward cheap food for poorer households or as bait and fish meal rather than to restaurant tables. The old saying to throw a sprat to catch a mackerel describes giving up something small in the hope of gaining something much larger in return, a figure of speech that draws directly on the sprat's modest size next to a mackerel's. Because sprats swim in dense shoals near the surface, they are also an important food source for larger fish, seabirds and marine mammals along the coasts where they gather.
How SPRAT is used
A common name in fishing and cookery for a small herring-like fish, and the source of the fixed expression to throw a sprat to catch a mackerel.
- The fishmonger sold a tray of fresh sprats for frying.
- Seabirds dived repeatedly into a shoal of sprats near the shore.
- She grilled the sprats whole and served them with lemon.
- He joked that the small discount was just a sprat to catch a mackerel.
- Smoked sprats were a common cheap food in coastal towns.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPRAT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPRAT
The 5 tiles of SPRAT in a different order — 6 found.
Words starting with SPRAT
5 longer words begin with SPRAT.
Shorter words from the letters in SPRAT
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Common questions about SPRAT
- Is SPRAT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPRAT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPRAT worth?
- SPRAT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPRAT mean?
- A small, silvery herring-like fish found in shoals in coastal waters of the northeastern Atlantic, often eaten whole and smoked or fried.
- What letters can be added to SPRAT?
- SPRAT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SPRAT:
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