GAVOT is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. GAVOT 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 GAVOT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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 GAVOT is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GAVOT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
gavotsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GAVOT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GAVOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does GAVOT mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
An old French dance in a moderately quick four-beat rhythm, also spelled gavotte, and the music written for it.
A gavot begins on the half-bar rather than the downbeat, which gives the dance its distinctive lift compared with slower court dances of the same period. Composers such as Bach and Handel wrote a gavot as one of the optional movements inserted into a baroque instrumental suite. The name gavot is simply a shorter form of gavotte, and both refer to the same dance and the same style of music.
How GAVOT is used
A less common spelling of gavotte; found chiefly in older or specialist music writing.
- The suite included a gavot between the sarabande and the gigue.
- Dancers learned the gavot as part of their study of court dances.
- The composer marked the gavot to be played briskly.
- A gavot from the same period survives in a manuscript at the library.
- The orchestra rehearsed the gavot before moving on to the minuet.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GAVOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GAVOT
5 longer words begin with GAVOT.
Shorter words from the letters in GAVOT
Common questions about GAVOT
- Is GAVOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GAVOT, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GAVOT worth?
- GAVOT is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GAVOT mean?
- An old French dance in a moderately quick four-beat rhythm, also spelled gavotte, and the music written for it.
- What letters can be added to GAVOT?
- GAVOT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GAVOT:
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