POP is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. POP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POP?
| 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 POP is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POP
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POP scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in POP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,213.
What stands out about POP
- POP is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does POP mean in Scrabble?
noun
A sudden short explosive sound.
Pop covers a noise, a drink, a kind of music, a father and an action, and only the first two of those are related to each other. The music sense is clipped from popular and dates from the 1920s, which is a good deal earlier than most people assume.
How POP is used
Countable and a verb. Several unrelated senses.
- The cork came out with a pop and hit the ceiling.
- A bottle of pop in that part of the country means lemonade.
- The pop chart is older than the phrase suggests.
- He popped in for five minutes and stayed two hours.
- Two pops and the fire went out.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with POP
Showing 24 of 146 words that begin with POP.
Words ending in POP
10 words end in POP. Useful as a back hook: play POP onto a word already on the board.
Words with POP inside
Showing 24 of 253 words that contain POP somewhere in the middle. Words that start with POP are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in POP
Common questions about POP
- Is POP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POP, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POP worth?
- POP is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POP mean?
- A sudden short explosive sound.
- What letters can be added to POP?
- POP takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of POP:
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