Is OAT a Scrabble word?
Yes. OAT is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 3 in Words With Friends.
Meaning Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
Noun 4 meanings
Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
“The oat stalks made good straw.”
Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
“The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats.”
The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.
A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-West Germanic *aitā, from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter (“poison”).
OAT at a glance
OAT has 3 letters and scores 3 points in Scrabble (O 1 + A 1 + T 1) and 3 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #31,956 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
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