ABORT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ABORT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ABORT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABORT is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABORT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
abortsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ABORT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ABORT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about ABORT
- The letters of ABORT run in alphabetical order from first to last.
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ABORT mean in Scrabble?
verb
To end an action, process, or plan before it is complete, usually because of a problem.
Abort is used across many fields for stopping something partway through, from a rocket launch stopped seconds before liftoff to a computer program that aborts when it meets an error it cannot handle. The word implies an unplanned or forced stop rather than a normal finish, so pilots abort a landing and surgeons abort a procedure when conditions turn unsafe. In medicine, abort also names the deliberate ending of a pregnancy, one specific sense among the word's wider general uses.
How ABORT is used
Common in technical, medical and everyday writing whenever a plan or process is stopped before completion.
- Mission control ordered the crew to abort the launch.
- The program will abort if it cannot read the file.
- Pilots practiced how to abort a landing safely.
- They had to abort the climb when the weather turned.
- The surgeon chose to abort the operation once complications appeared.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABORT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ABORT
The 5 tiles of ABORT in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with ABORT
24 longer words begin with ABORT.
Words with ABORT inside
5 words contain ABORT in the middle. Words that start with ABORT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ABORT
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Common questions about ABORT
- Is ABORT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ABORT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ABORT worth?
- ABORT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABORT mean?
- To end an action, process, or plan before it is complete, usually because of a problem.
- What letters can be added to ABORT?
- ABORT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ABORT:
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