chattel

Meanings

Plural: chattels

Noun

personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
Tangible, movable property.
A slave.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English chatel, from Old French chatel, from Medieval Latin capitāle (English capital), from Latin capitālis (“of the head”), from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”). Compare the doublet cattle (“cows”), which is from an Anglo-Norman variant. Compare also capital and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.

Synonyms

movable, personal chattel

Scrabble Score: 12

chattel is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
chattel is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
chattel is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

chattel is a valid Words With Friends word