POTT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. POTT 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 POTT?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POTT is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POTT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POTT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in POTT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 16,338.
What does POTT mean in Scrabble?
noun
printinghistorical
A traditional size of writing or printing paper, about 12½ by 15½ inches, named for its old watermark.
Pott names one of the traditional English paper sizes, standing between foolscap and post in area, and paper mills once marked it with a small mark of a pot near the sheet's edge, which is where the name pott comes from. The system of watermark-named sizes fell out of general use once metric sizes such as A4 took over, but pott survives as a historical term in printing.
How POTT is used
Chiefly historical, in printing and papermaking; rarely met outside specialist writing.
- The ledger was written on pott, the smallest of the common sizes.
- Printers listed pott just below foolscap in their size charts.
- A sheet of pott took its name from an old watermark of a pot.
- Few printers today would recognise pott without a chart in front of them.
- The old order books quoted paper by name: pott, foolscap, post.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POTT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with POTT
Showing 24 of 34 words that begin with POTT.
Words with POTT inside
Showing 24 of 43 words that contain POTT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with POTT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in POTT
Common questions about POTT
- Is POTT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and POTT is not in it.
- How many points is POTT worth?
- POTT is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POTT mean?
- A traditional size of writing or printing paper, about 12½ by 15½ inches, named for its old watermark.
- What letters can be added to POTT?
- POTT takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of POTT:
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