fat: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 6 letter points · starts with F · ends with T
Meaning of fat
adj
- derogatory, sometimes
Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
Example: The fat man had problems going through the door.
Thick; large.
Example: The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
Bulbous; rotund.
Bountiful.
Listed forms: fatter, fattest.
Source: Wiktionary — fat.
noun
- uncountable, usually
A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
Example: Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.
- uncountable, usually
A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue. Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
Example: Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
- countable, usually
A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
Example: Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it.
- uncountable, usually
That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
Example: We need to trim the fat in this company
Listed forms: fats.
Source: Wiktionary — fat.
verb
- transitive
To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
- archaic, transitive
To make fat; to fatten.
Example: kill the fatted calf
- archaic, intransitive
To become fat; to fatten.
Listed forms: fats, fatting, fatted.
Source: Wiktionary — fat.
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 fat.
adjective
containing or composed of fat
adjective
lucrative
adjective
marked by great fruitfulness
noun
a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
- adipose tissue
- fatty tissue
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is fat 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 fat
F(4) + A(1) + T(1) = 6 points.
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Anagrams of fat
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from fat
3 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in fat. Showing up to 24, longest first.