CAPOT is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. CAPOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CAPOT?
| 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 CAPOT is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CAPOT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CAPOT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CAPOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does CAPOT mean in Scrabble?
verb
historical
To win every trick from an opponent at piquet.
Piquet is a two-handed card game that was the standard one across Europe for three centuries, and capot is its word for total defeat: not merely losing but taking nothing whatever. The game has faded and the word with it, so it now belongs to histories of cards rather than to tables.
How CAPOT is used
Transitive: to capot an opponent. Also a noun for the result. Chiefly historical.
- He was capot in the second hand and never recovered.
- To capot somebody at piquet is to take every trick.
- The rules give a bonus for a capot and a larger one for winning early.
- She capots him twice in one evening and says nothing.
- The word capot survives in card histories alone.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CAPOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CAPOT
The 5 tiles of CAPOT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CAPOT
7 longer words begin with CAPOT.
Shorter words from the letters in CAPOT
Common questions about CAPOT
- Is CAPOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CAPOT, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CAPOT worth?
- CAPOT is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CAPOT mean?
- To win every trick from an opponent at piquet.
- What letters can be added to CAPOT?
- CAPOT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CAPOT:
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