RHO is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RHO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RHO?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RHO is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RHO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
rhosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RHO scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in RHO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does RHO mean in Scrabble?
noun
The seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
Rho looks like a p and is not, which catches out anybody reading a formula for the first time. In statistics it stands for a correlation coefficient and in physics for density, and the two conventions have no connection to each other at all.
How RHO is used
Countable: a rho, two rhos.
- The rho in that formula means density.
- A rho looks like a p to anybody who has not met it.
- In statistics a rho is a correlation coefficient.
- Two rhos in one equation need distinguishing marks.
- He wrote a rho and the marker read it as a p.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RHO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RHO
Showing 24 of 105 words that begin with RHO.
Words ending in RHO
1 words end in RHO. Useful as a back hook: play RHO onto a word already on the board.
Words with RHO inside
Showing 24 of 212 words that contain RHO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RHO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RHO
Common questions about RHO
- Is RHO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RHO, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RHO worth?
- RHO is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RHO mean?
- The seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
- What letters can be added to RHO?
- RHO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of RHO:
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