WATAP is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. WATAP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WATAP?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WATAP is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WATAP
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WATAP scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WATAP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does WATAP mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalNorth American
The thin, fibrous roots of certain conifers, especially spruce, split and used for sewing bark, baskets and similar items.
Watap was gathered from the fine roots of spruce and other conifers, then split into thin, flexible strands strong enough to stitch together sheets of birchbark for canoes, containers and baskets. Native peoples of the northern woodlands relied on it as thread long before manufactured cord was available in the region. The word is used today mostly in accounts of traditional crafts and historical canoe-building rather than in ordinary speech.
How WATAP is used
A specialist, historical term found in accounts of traditional Native American crafts, especially birchbark canoe construction.
- The craftsman split spruce roots into watap for stitching the canoe seams.
- Watap held the birchbark panels together long before nails were used.
- She learned to gather and prepare watap from her grandmother.
- The basket was sewn with strands of watap rather than modern thread.
- Museum notes described how watap was boiled to make it pliable.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WATAP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WATAP
3 longer words begin with WATAP.
Shorter words from the letters in WATAP
Common questions about WATAP
- Is WATAP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WATAP, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WATAP worth?
- WATAP is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WATAP mean?
- The thin, fibrous roots of certain conifers, especially spruce, split and used for sewing bark, baskets and similar items.
- What letters can be added to WATAP?
- WATAP takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WATAP:
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