APOOP is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. APOOP is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept APOOP?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful APOOP is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for APOOP
No single letter turns APOOP into another word.
How APOOP scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in APOOP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 2 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 298,760.
What does APOOP mean in Scrabble?
adverb
nauticalarchaic
On or at the poop deck of a ship, toward the stern.
Sailors used apoop to fix a person or object at one particular spot on board, the raised structure at the back of an old sailing vessel, rather than leaving the location vague. The word sits in the same family as aloft and ashore, compounds built from a to plus a place name to describe where someone stood on a ship. It survives today mainly in older nautical writing and in dictionaries of sea terms.
How APOOP is used
Archaic nautical adverb; rarely used outside historical or literary sailing narratives.
- The captain stood apoop, watching the wake stretch behind the ship.
- Two sailors kept watch apoop through the whole storm.
- Officers gathered apoop to study the chart in the lamplight.
- She remained apoop long after the other passengers had gone below.
- The old account places the wounded man apoop, away from the fighting at the bow.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of APOOP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in APOOP
Common questions about APOOP
- Is APOOP valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and APOOP is not in it.
- How many points is APOOP worth?
- APOOP is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does APOOP mean?
- On or at the poop deck of a ship, toward the stern.
- What letters can be added to APOOP?
- No single letter can be added to APOOP to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of APOOP:
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