chat: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 9 letter points · starts with C · ends with T
Meaning of chat
verb
To be engaged in informal conversation.
Example: She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
To talk a while in a friendly manner.
Example: I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
- transitive
To talk of; to discuss.
Example: They chatted politics for a while.
- informal, often, slang
To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
Example: Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.
Listed forms: chats, chatting, chatted.
Source: Wiktionary — chat.
noun
- countable, uncountable
Informal conversation.
Example: It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.
- countable, uncountable
An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
Example: Internet Relay Chat
- Internet, uncountable
A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
Example: "Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me."
- Internet, countable, metonymically, uncountable
A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream. The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
Example: The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.
Listed forms: chats.
Source: Wiktionary — chat.
intj
- humorous, informal
Used to introduce a question, to address all the other people present.
Example: Chat, is this real?
Source: Wiktionary — chat.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for chat.
noun
an informal conversation
- confab
- confabulation
- schmooze
- schmoose
noun
birds having a chattering call
- New World chat
noun
songbirds having a chattering call
- Old World chat
verb
talk socially without exchanging too much information
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is chat in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of chat
C(3) + H(4) + A(1) + T(1) = 9 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of chat
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from chat
10 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in chat. Showing up to 24, longest first.