OPTIME is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. OPTIME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OPTIME?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OPTIME is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OPTIME
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
optimesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OPTIME scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OPTIME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does OPTIME mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
At Cambridge, a student ranked in the second or third class of honours in the mathematics examination.
Optimes came below the wranglers in the old Mathematical Tripos and were split into senior and junior optimes. The Latin word means best, and it was used with some irony, since the best came first among the wranglers. The ranking was abolished in 1909, so optime now turns up in histories of the university and in Victorian novels.
How OPTIME is used
Historical and specific to Cambridge; it is usually seen in the phrases senior optime and junior optime.
- He graduated as a senior optime after three years of hard study.
- Being a mere optime was a disappointment to his family.
- The list of the year named the wranglers first and the optime after them.
- A junior optime, he later became a country clergyman.
- The biography records that the poet was an optime in mathematics.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OPTIME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OPTIME
1 longer words begin with OPTIME.
Shorter words from the letters in OPTIME
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Common questions about OPTIME
- Is OPTIME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OPTIME, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OPTIME worth?
- OPTIME is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OPTIME mean?
- At Cambridge, a student ranked in the second or third class of honours in the mathematics examination.
- What letters can be added to OPTIME?
- OPTIME takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OPTIME:
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