POTE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. POTE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept POTE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POTE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POTE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POTE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in POTE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,404.
What stands out about POTE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does POTE mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectarchaic
To poke or thrust at something, especially with a stick or the foot.
Pote is an old dialect verb recorded in English regional glossaries, close in sense to poke or push. It describes prodding or nudging something with a pointed or blunt object rather than striking it hard.
How POTE is used
Archaic and dialectal; found chiefly in older regional word lists rather than in current speech.
- He would pote the fire with a long stick.
- The boy liked to pote at the anthill with a twig.
- She poted the sleeping cat gently to wake it.
- The old word pote survives only in dialect dictionaries.
- He poted the door open with his boot.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POTE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POTE
The 4 tiles of POTE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with POTE
Showing 24 of 45 words that begin with POTE.
Words ending in POTE
3 words end in POTE. Useful as a back hook: play POTE onto a word already on the board.
Words with POTE inside
Showing 24 of 69 words that contain POTE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with POTE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in POTE
Common questions about POTE
- Is POTE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and POTE is not in it.
- How many points is POTE worth?
- POTE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POTE mean?
- To poke or thrust at something, especially with a stick or the foot.
- What letters can be added to POTE?
- POTE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of POTE:
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