GUYOT is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. GUYOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GUYOT?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GUYOT is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GUYOT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
guyotsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GUYOT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GUYOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does GUYOT mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A flat-topped seamount, an underwater mountain of volcanic origin whose peak has been worn level and often lies far below the surface.
A guyot begins as an island volcano poking above the waves, but as the ocean floor slowly sinks and the exposed peak erodes, it flattens into a broad plateau that eventually drops below sea level entirely. Oceanographers can pick guyots out on sonar maps by their unusually flat summits, which set them apart from the sharper peaks of ordinary seamounts that never broke the surface. Many guyots scattered across the Pacific date back tens of millions of years and carry ancient coral remains on their flattened tops, evidence that they once sat in shallow, sunlit water. The term honors a nineteenth-century geographer, but it now functions as an ordinary technical word rather than a reference to any one person.
How GUYOT is used
A specialist term in oceanography and marine geology, rarely used outside scientific or educational writing about the seafloor.
- Sonar surveys revealed a guyot rising nearly a mile from the ocean floor.
- The expedition mapped a chain of guyots stretching across the Pacific basin.
- Coral fragments on the guyot suggested it once stood near the surface.
- Geologists compared the flat top of the guyot to a drowned island.
- The textbook illustrated how a volcanic island slowly becomes a guyot.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GUYOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GUYOT
The 5 tiles of GUYOT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GUYOT
1 longer words begin with GUYOT.
Shorter words from the letters in GUYOT
Common questions about GUYOT
- Is GUYOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GUYOT, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GUYOT worth?
- GUYOT is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GUYOT mean?
- A flat-topped seamount, an underwater mountain of volcanic origin whose peak has been worn level and often lies far below the surface.
- What letters can be added to GUYOT?
- GUYOT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GUYOT:
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