FOO is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. FOO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FOO?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FOO is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FOO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FOO scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in FOO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,888.
What does FOO mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A placeholder name used in programming examples.
Foo and bar are the standard names for anything that does not matter in an example, and the pair probably comes from a military abbreviation of the 1940s that was not polite. Nobody uses either in real code, which is precisely the point of them.
How FOO is used
Uncountable in practice. Chiefly in programming documentation.
- The example calls the variable foo and explains nothing.
- A function named foo tells the reader to look elsewhere.
- Foo and bar appear together or not at all.
- Real code with foo in it has been left unfinished.
- The word foo probably comes from a wartime abbreviation.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FOO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FOO
The 3 tiles of FOO in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with FOO
Showing 24 of 233 words that begin with FOO.
Words ending in FOO
1 words end in FOO. Useful as a back hook: play FOO onto a word already on the board.
Words with FOO inside
Showing 24 of 137 words that contain FOO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with FOO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FOO
Common questions about FOO
- Is FOO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FOO, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FOO worth?
- FOO is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FOO mean?
- A placeholder name used in programming examples.
- What letters can be added to FOO?
- FOO takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of FOO:
Open FOO in the Word Finder