BOT is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. BOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOT?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOT is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOT scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in BOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does BOT mean in Scrabble?
noun
An automated program that runs on a network.
Bot is clipped from robot, which was coined in a Czech play in 1920 from a word meaning forced labour. A quite separate bot is the larva of a fly that lives in the stomachs of horses, and that one is centuries older.
How BOT is used
Countable: a bot, two bots.
- The bot posted the same reply four hundred times.
- A bot can be useful or a nuisance and often both.
- The word bot is clipped from robot.
- Bots now make up more traffic than people do.
- A bot in a horse is a larva and not a program.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOT
Showing 24 of 146 words that begin with BOT.
Words ending in BOT
19 words end in BOT. Useful as a back hook: play BOT onto a word already on the board.
Words with BOT inside
Showing 24 of 158 words that contain BOT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BOT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BOT
Common questions about BOT
- Is BOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOT, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOT worth?
- BOT is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOT mean?
- An automated program that runs on a network.
- What letters can be added to BOT?
- BOT takes 6 hooks: 0 in front and 6 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of BOT:
Open BOT in the Word Finder