Sprats is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 118 anagrams from letters in sprats (aprsst).
1590-1600; variant of earlier sprot, Middle English, Old English (cognate with German Sprott); apparently same word as Old English sprott sprout, twig (for the two meanings cf. Examples for sprats
"We will throw a sprat to catch a herring," quoted Momsey cheerfully.
Would sprat and Clifford have burned what they have told us they so much admired?
This time to get seized itself, and jerked out of the water, as if it had been but a sprat.
Butler, sprat, and Martin Clifford are named as his coadjutors.
And yet it was not always easy for the sprat to catch the whale.
The writer states that the sprat and herring were used in Lent.
They 'swallowed the engagement as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.'
The same is the case with the sprat, the herring, and the pilchard, as well as with most of our fresh-water fish.
Theyre wondering who this sprat is that we are asked to swallow.
Never did he fling out a sprat without the expectation of catching a salmon.