PETTO is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PETTO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PETTO?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PETTO is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PETTO
No single letter turns PETTO into another word.
How PETTO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PETTO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 26,142.
What does PETTO mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
The breast, used in English almost only in the phrase in petto, meaning kept secret or not yet made public.
Borrowed straight from Italian, where petto names the chest, the word appears in English almost exclusively inside that one borrowed phrase rather than as a free-standing noun for the breast. It is best known from Catholic church practice, where a pope may name a cardinal in petto, so that the appointment is announced only later, once circumstances allow. Outside that specific context, petto rarely surfaces as an English word at all, which is why most dictionaries define it only through the phrase itself.
How PETTO is used
A formal, mostly literary phrase, chiefly in petto, met in writing about the Catholic Church or in older diplomatic prose.
- The pope was reported to hold one cardinal in petto that year.
- He kept his objection in petto rather than raise it at the meeting.
- The old letter spoke of a decision kept in petto until spring.
- Historians debate how many cardinals a single pope named in petto.
- She confided the plan in petto to only her closest advisor.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PETTO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in PETTO
3 words end in PETTO. Useful as a back hook: play PETTO onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in PETTO
Common questions about PETTO
- Is PETTO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PETTO, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PETTO worth?
- PETTO is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PETTO mean?
- The breast, used in English almost only in the phrase in petto, meaning kept secret or not yet made public.
- What letters can be added to PETTO?
- No single letter can be added to PETTO to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PETTO:
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