HOT is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. HOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOT?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOT is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HOT scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does HOT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Having a high temperature.
Hot has more figurative senses than nearly any other short adjective: a hot topic, a hot favourite, a hot tip, hot on somebody's trail. What links them is attention rather than temperature, and the food sense meaning spicy is a separate line entirely.
How HOT is used
Before and after the noun. The comparative is hotter.
- The pan was still hot an hour later.
- It is the hot topic and will be forgotten by March.
- A hot curry and a cold beer.
- They were hot favourites and lost in the first round.
- The police were hot on his trail and two days behind.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HOT
The 3 tiles of HOT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HOT
Showing 24 of 95 words that begin with HOT.
Words ending in HOT
Showing 24 of 52 words that end in HOT. Useful as a back hook: play HOT onto a word already on the board.
Words with HOT inside
Showing 24 of 766 words that contain HOT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HOT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HOT
Common questions about HOT
- Is HOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOT, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOT worth?
- HOT is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOT mean?
- Having a high temperature.
- What letters can be added to HOT?
- HOT takes 5 hooks: 3 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HOT:
Open HOT in the Word Finder