BOTT is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. BOTT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOTT?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOTT is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOTT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOTT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BOTT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 16,338.
What does BOTT mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
The maggot-like larva of a botfly, known simply as a bot, which develops as an internal parasite in the digestive tract of horses.
A bott hatches from an egg laid on a horse's coat and, once swallowed, attaches itself to the stomach wall until it matures and passes out in the animal's dung. The spelling bott is an older variant of the more common bot.
How BOTT is used
Rare, older spelling; mostly found in veterinary and historical writing about horse parasites.
- The stable hand found a bott clinging to the lining of the stomach.
- A single bott can survive for months inside a horse before dropping away.
- Old farming manuals describe the bott as a persistent nuisance to livestock.
- The vet identified the parasite as a bott rather than an ordinary worm.
- Each bott eventually detaches and passes out with the horse's droppings.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOTT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOTT
Showing 24 of 50 words that begin with BOTT.
Words with BOTT inside
17 words contain BOTT in the middle. Words that start with BOTT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BOTT
Common questions about BOTT
- Is BOTT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOTT, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOTT worth?
- BOTT is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOTT mean?
- The maggot-like larva of a botfly, known simply as a bot, which develops as an internal parasite in the digestive tract of horses.
- What letters can be added to BOTT?
- BOTT takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BOTT:
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