scrat
/skɹæt/obsolete
scrat is spelled S-C-R-A-T: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, scrat means “To scratch or scrape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in scrat?
| Letters | 5: S-C-R-A-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 22 million words; the 141,699th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is scrat?
Scrat appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce scrat?
- /skɹæt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-scrat.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of scrat
- scrats present, singular, he/she/it
- scratting participle, present
- scratted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does scrat mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo scratch or scrape.
Euclio […] as he went from home, seeing a crow scrat upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for malum omen, an ill sign […].
- 2
UKobsoleteTo rake; to search.
noun
- 1
obsoleteA hermaphrodite.
- 2
obsoleteA devil.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does scrat come from?
From Middle English scratten. Further etymology uncertain; apparently related to cratch, from Middle English cratchen, cracchen (“to scratch”), alteration of *cratsen (“to scratch”). The root is Germanic and may be inherited from Proto-West Germanic. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *krattōną (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gred-, *grod- (“to scratch, scrape”); ultimately onomatopoeic in origin (compare crush, crow).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).