chat

chat is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
2. transitive verb. To talk of.
3. noun. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
4. noun. A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.
5. noun. A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
6. noun. Small stones with ore.
7. noun. songbirds having a chattering call
8. noun. birds having a chattering call
9. noun. an informal conversation

   Synonyms: confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze

10. verb. talk socially without exchanging too much information

    "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"

    Synonyms: chaffer, chatter, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, visit

Synonyms

confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze, chaffer, chatter, chitchat, claver, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, visit

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in chat:

acth, cath, tach

Common word forms

chats, chatted, chatter, chatting

Words from these letters

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