POTTO is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. POTTO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POTTO?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POTTO is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POTTO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pottosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POTTO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in POTTO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 89,628.
What does POTTO mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A small, slow-moving nocturnal primate of the loris family, native to the rainforests of West and Central Africa.
A potto spends its nights creeping along branches in careful, deliberate movements, gripping tightly with strong hands and feet rather than leaping the way many other primates do. Sharp bony spines along its neck vertebrae, covered only by a thin layer of skin, let a potto defend itself by butting or wedging an attacker rather than fighting outright. Its large eyes are adapted for seeing in near darkness, and it feeds mainly on fruit, insects and tree gum found along its slow nightly route. The name potto is sometimes applied loosely to unrelated animals in older texts, but among primatologists it now refers specifically to this African relative of the lorises.
How POTTO is used
A specialist term from zoology and primatology, met mainly in field guides and accounts of African wildlife.
- The potto moved along the branch so slowly that it was easy to miss in torchlight.
- A potto can go rigid and freeze in place for several minutes if disturbed.
- Researchers fitted a radio collar to track the potto through the forest canopy.
- Unlike many primates, a potto rarely leaps between branches.
- The zoo's nocturnal house kept a single potto behind glass.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POTTO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with POTTO
1 longer words begin with POTTO.
Shorter words from the letters in POTTO
Common questions about POTTO
- Is POTTO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POTTO, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POTTO worth?
- POTTO is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POTTO mean?
- A small, slow-moving nocturnal primate of the loris family, native to the rainforests of West and Central Africa.
- What letters can be added to POTTO?
- POTTO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of POTTO:
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