COTTON is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. COTTON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COTTON?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COTTON is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COTTON
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COTTON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in COTTON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 236,518.
What does COTTON mean in Scrabble?
noun
A soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant and is spun into thread and woven into cloth.
Cotton fibres wrap around the seeds of several related shrubs grown across warm regions of the world, from the southern United States to India and Egypt. Farmers separate the fibre from the seed by ginning, and mills spin it into yarn used for everything from shirts to bedsheets. The word also survives as an informal verb, to cotton to something, meaning to start warming to an idea or a person.
How COTTON is used
Chiefly a noun for the fibre or fabric; the phrasal verb cotton to is informal.
- The shirt was woven from pure cotton.
- Farmers picked the cotton by hand before machines took over.
- She prefers cotton sheets to synthetic ones in summer.
- He didn't cotton to the new manager at first.
- Raw cotton is baled and shipped to spinning mills.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COTTON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COTTON
20 longer words begin with COTTON.
Shorter words from the letters in COTTON
Common questions about COTTON
- Is COTTON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COTTON, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COTTON worth?
- COTTON is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COTTON mean?
- A soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant and is spun into thread and woven into cloth.
- What letters can be added to COTTON?
- COTTON takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of COTTON:
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