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CAT

/kat/

3-letter word · 5 Scrabble points · 6 Words With Friends points

C 3
A 1
T 1

Meaning of CAT

noun
  1. An animal of the family Felidae:
  2. A person:
verb
  1. To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
  2. To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
noun
  1. A twin-hulled ship or boat.
  2. A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
noun
  1. A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
verb
  1. To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
  2. To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target) usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
adjective
  1. Terrible, disastrous.
    "The weather was cat, so they returned home early."
noun
  1. A street name of the drug methcathinone.
noun
  1. A catapult.
    "a carrier's bow cats"
noun
  1. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
    "I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel."
  2. A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
    "Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid."
noun
  1. Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth
noun
  1. Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
  2. Such a fake profile.
noun
  1. Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
  2. A caterpillar drive vehicle (a ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks), especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
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Anagrams of CAT

act5

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About the word CAT

Is "CAT" a valid Scrabble word?

Yes. "CAT" is in the ENABLE word list, accepted by Words With Friends and most open Scrabble apps. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words With Friends.

How many points is "CAT" worth?

In Scrabble, "CAT" is worth 5 points before bonuses. In Words With Friends, it's worth 6 points. Played on a triple-word-score, the Scrabble value becomes 15.

What does "CAT" mean?

An animal of the family Felidae:

What are the anagrams of "CAT"?

1 anagram can be formed using the same letters as CAT: ACT.