ESCOT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ESCOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ESCOT?
| 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 ESCOT is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ESCOT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
escotsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ESCOT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ESCOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 16,338.
What stands out about ESCOT
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ESCOT mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To pay the cost of; to support or maintain (a person) financially.
A patron who agreed to escot a young scholar or a struggling relative took on the expense of keeping that person fed, housed, or educated, much as a modern sponsor might cover someone's costs today. The word is closely related to scot, an old term for a tax or a share of a payment, and both trace back through French to a root meaning a fixed charge. Writers of earlier English used escot mainly in legal and everyday contexts to describe covering someone's expenses, and Shakespeare himself used the word in this financial sense. Modern English has largely replaced escot with plainer verbs such as support or maintain, leaving the older word to appear almost only in historical or literary writing.
How ESCOT is used
Archaic; found in older English texts, including Shakespeare, rather than in current speech or writing.
- The wealthy merchant agreed to escot the young musician's training.
- Old records show the town chose to escot the injured soldier.
- The guardian was expected to escot the orphaned children until they came of age.
- A patron willing to escot a poet's expenses was hard to find.
- The play uses escot in its original sense of financial support.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ESCOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ESCOT
The 5 tiles of ESCOT in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with ESCOT
5 longer words begin with ESCOT.
Shorter words from the letters in ESCOT
Common questions about ESCOT
- Is ESCOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ESCOT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ESCOT worth?
- ESCOT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ESCOT mean?
- To pay the cost of; to support or maintain (a person) financially.
- What letters can be added to ESCOT?
- ESCOT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ESCOT:
Open ESCOT in the Word Finder