Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

congrat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

Syllables: con-grat
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Clipping of congratulate.

Informal

Example Sentences

"the judges congratted me. the principal congratted me. my mom didnt. never a word."
"ID proved it and everybody else is scratching their heads and coming out w/ doom clones to leech the few bucks left in ID's wake, I congrat them BIGTIME!"
"Dad understands, but mom still hasn't congrated me on making it into grad school."

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

congrats (present, singular) congrating (participle, present) congratting (participle, present) congrated (participle, past) congrated (past) congratted (participle, past) congratted (past) congrate (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

congrats

Questions

What does congrat mean?: Clipping of congratulate.

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