PHOTO is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PHOTO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PHOTO?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PHOTO is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PHOTO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PHOTO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PHOTO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 112,035.
What does PHOTO mean in Scrabble?
noun
A picture produced by a camera; short for photograph.
Photo is the everyday short form of photograph, used for pictures made with a camera, whether printed, framed or stored on a phone or computer. It appears freely as part of compounds such as photo album, photo booth and photo finish, and as a verb photo can mean to photograph something, though photograph itself remains more common as a verb. The shortened form is so widely used that photograph now sounds slightly more formal by comparison. Digital cameras and phones have made taking and sharing a photo an almost constant part of daily life.
How PHOTO is used
Very common in casual speech and writing; photograph is preferred in more formal contexts.
- She took a photo of the sunset from the balcony.
- He kept an old photo of his grandparents on the desk.
- The magazine ran a full-page photo of the winning team.
- They printed the photo and framed it for the wall.
- A photo finish decided the race by a fraction of a second.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHOTO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PHOTO
Showing 24 of 441 words that begin with PHOTO.
Words ending in PHOTO
3 words end in PHOTO. Useful as a back hook: play PHOTO onto a word already on the board.
Words with PHOTO inside
Showing 24 of 36 words that contain PHOTO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PHOTO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PHOTO
Common questions about PHOTO
- Is PHOTO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PHOTO, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PHOTO worth?
- PHOTO is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PHOTO mean?
- A picture produced by a camera; short for photograph.
- What letters can be added to PHOTO?
- PHOTO takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PHOTO:
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