AUTOTROPH is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. AUTOTROPH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AUTOTROPH?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AUTOTROPH is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AUTOTROPH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AUTOTROPH scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in AUTOTROPH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so AUTOTROPH has to be built on the board across turns.
What does AUTOTROPH mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalbotany
A living thing that makes its own nourishing compounds from simple inorganic materials such as carbon dioxide.
Green plants and many algae are the classic autotroph examples, and they sit at the base of nearly every food chain. The opposite term is heterotroph, an organism that must consume others, and biology lessons usually introduce the two together.
How AUTOTROPH is used
Used in biology and ecology when classifying organisms by how they obtain energy.
- Every green plant is an autotroph that builds sugar from light and air.
- Without an autotroph at the start, the food chain would have no energy to pass along.
- Some bacteria are an autotroph that gets energy from chemicals rather than sunlight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AUTOTROPH and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AUTOTROPH
5 longer words begin with AUTOTROPH.
Shorter words from the letters in AUTOTROPH
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Common questions about AUTOTROPH
- Is AUTOTROPH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AUTOTROPH, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AUTOTROPH worth?
- AUTOTROPH is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AUTOTROPH mean?
- A living thing that makes its own nourishing compounds from simple inorganic materials such as carbon dioxide.
- What letters can be added to AUTOTROPH?
- AUTOTROPH takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of AUTOTROPH:
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