ERGOT is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ERGOT 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 ERGOT?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ERGOT is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ERGOT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ergotsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ERGOT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ERGOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,262.
What does ERGOT mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanymedical
A fungus that infects rye and related cereal grasses, forming dark, hardened growths in place of grain kernels and yielding several powerful medicinal alkaloids.
Ergot spreads through a rye field when its spores infect the developing flowers, replacing individual grains with hard, purplish-black growths that farmers once had to remove by hand before milling. Bread made from flour contaminated with ergot caused serious poisoning epidemics in medieval Europe, producing burning sensations, hallucinations, and sometimes gangrene in entire villages that ate the tainted grain. Chemists later isolated several alkaloids from ergot, and those same compounds became the starting point for medicines used to control bleeding after childbirth and to treat migraine headaches. Long before its chemistry was understood, midwives in some regions already used ergot cautiously to bring on labor, aware that too much of it was dangerous.
How ERGOT is used
Used in botany and mycology for the fungus and disease, and in medicine and pharmacology for the alkaloids it produces.
- The agronomist checked the rye field for early signs of ergot.
- Historians linked a strange medieval epidemic to bread made with ergot.
- Pharmacologists extracted several alkaloids from the ergot fungus.
- A midwife once used ergot to help control bleeding after delivery.
- The grain inspector rejected the shipment after finding ergot in it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ERGOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ERGOT
14 longer words begin with ERGOT.
Words ending in ERGOT
1 words end in ERGOT. Useful as a back hook: play ERGOT onto a word already on the board.
Words with ERGOT inside
3 words contain ERGOT in the middle. Words that start with ERGOT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ERGOT
Common questions about ERGOT
- Is ERGOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ERGOT, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ERGOT worth?
- ERGOT is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ERGOT mean?
- A fungus that infects rye and related cereal grasses, forming dark, hardened growths in place of grain kernels and yielding several powerful medicinal alkaloids.
- What letters can be added to ERGOT?
- ERGOT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ERGOT:
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