POLYCOT is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. POLYCOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POLYCOT?
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POLYCOT is to know. It scores 14 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POLYCOT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
polycotsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POLYCOT scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in POLYCOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,978 thousand.
What does POLYCOT mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A plant that has, or seems to have, more than two seed leaves.
Botanists use polycot as a clipped form of polycotyledon when a seedling shows a whorl of seed leaves instead of the usual pair. Pines and a few other conifers are the textbook examples, while most flowering plants stay with one or two.
How POLYCOT is used
The word polycot appears almost only in botany, where seedlings are classed by how many seed leaves they bear.
- The pine seedling is a polycot, with a ring of needle-like seed leaves.
- Counting the leaves showed that the unusual sprout was a polycot rather than a dicot.
- A student sketched each polycot on the tray and labelled the number of seed leaves.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POLYCOT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with POLYCOT
5 longer words begin with POLYCOT.
Shorter words from the letters in POLYCOT
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Common questions about POLYCOT
- Is POLYCOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POLYCOT, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POLYCOT worth?
- POLYCOT is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POLYCOT mean?
- A plant that has, or seems to have, more than two seed leaves.
- What letters can be added to POLYCOT?
- POLYCOT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of POLYCOT:
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