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Is colt a Scrabble word?

Yes, colt is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of colt?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.Examples: "Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself."figuratively

2. (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.Examples: "The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven."figurativelyslang

3. (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.figurativelyobsoleteslang

4. (nautical, historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.historical

5. (obsolete, slang) A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.obsoleteslang

6. (biblical) A young camel or donkey.

verb (English)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.Examples: "Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him."obsoletetransitive

2. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.Examples: "What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?"obsoletetransitive

3. (intransitive) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.Examples: "They shook off their bridles and began to colt."Synonyms: harlotizeintransitive

4. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.Examples: "We watched our opportunity, seized him, and, laying him across a chest, we colted him with a boot-jack until we nearly killed him, he at the time suffering from numerous boils in the nates; and for all this he obtained no redress!"; "[…] his first appearance the jury duly "colted" him."obsoleteslangtransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "colt"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "colt"?

Scrabble
6 points
C3
O1
L1
T1
Words With Friends
8 points
C4
O1
L2
T1

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