PHOT is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. PHOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PHOT?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PHOT is to know. It scores 9 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PHOT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PHOT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in PHOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,423.
What does PHOT mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A metric unit of illumination.
The phot lost out to another unit and the two differ by a factor of ten thousand, so old figures cannot be read as new ones. Its name comes from Greek for light and not from the root behind phon.
How PHOT is used
Countable: one phot, two phots. Largely obsolete.
- A phot is ten thousand of the unit that replaced it.
- The word phot comes from Greek for light.
- Old readings in phots cannot be compared directly.
- Phot and phon look like a pair and are not.
- Two phots is a very brightly lit surface.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PHOT
The 4 tiles of PHOT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PHOT
Showing 24 of 452 words that begin with PHOT.
Words with PHOT inside
Showing 24 of 62 words that contain PHOT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PHOT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PHOT
Common questions about PHOT
- Is PHOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PHOT, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PHOT worth?
- PHOT is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PHOT mean?
- A metric unit of illumination.
- What letters can be added to PHOT?
- PHOT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of PHOT:
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