RATOON is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RATOON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RATOON?
| 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 RATOON is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RATOON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ratoonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RATOON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RATOON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,900.
What does RATOON mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanytechnical
A new shoot that grows from the root or stubble of a plant, especially sugar cane, after the main stalk has been cut.
After a field of sugar cane or rice is harvested, the stumps left in the ground do not die; instead each one can send up a fresh stalk called a ratoon, and farmers who let this happen are said to grow a ratoon crop. The word covers both the shoot itself and the later harvest taken from it, so a grower might speak of a first ratoon and a second ratoon from the same planting. Because a ratoon needs no new seed or transplanting, ratooning is prized where labour or seed stock is costly, though the yield usually falls a little with each cycle. The verb form, to ratoon a field, describes deliberately cutting a plant back so that it produces this new growth.
How RATOON is used
Mainly an agricultural term used by growers and agronomists writing about sugar cane, rice or sorghum rather than in everyday speech.
- The farmer let the field ratoon rather than replanting it from seed.
- A good ratoon can still yield well in its second year after cutting.
- Rice growers in the region often take one ratoon crop before ploughing under the stubble.
- Sugar cane grown from a ratoon needs less irrigation to establish than a fresh planting.
- Each ratoon shoot rose from the base of the cut stalk within a few weeks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RATOON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RATOON
5 longer words begin with RATOON.
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Common questions about RATOON
- Is RATOON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RATOON, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RATOON worth?
- RATOON is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RATOON mean?
- A new shoot that grows from the root or stubble of a plant, especially sugar cane, after the main stalk has been cut.
- What letters can be added to RATOON?
- RATOON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RATOON:
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