RHOTIC is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. RHOTIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RHOTIC?
| 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 RHOTIC is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RHOTIC
No single letter turns RHOTIC into another word.
How RHOTIC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RHOTIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What stands out about RHOTIC
- The same 6 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 RHOTIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing an accent in which the letter r is pronounced after a vowel, as in the word hard.
Linguists use rhotic for the way a speaker treats the r sound, and the term comes from rho, the Greek letter for r. Most American, Scottish and Irish speech is rhotic, while many accents of southern England, Australia and New Zealand are non-rhotic and drop the sound before a consonant or at the end of a word. The contrast is one of the first things taught in courses on English accents.
How RHOTIC is used
A technical term of phonetics; the opposite is non-rhotic.
- Her rhotic accent made every r in the word farmer clearly audible.
- Scottish English is strongly rhotic.
- The linguist compared a rhotic speaker with a non-rhotic one.
- Many rhotic dialects keep the r at the end of car.
- The study mapped rhotic and non-rhotic areas across the country.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RHOTIC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RHOTIC
The 6 tiles of RHOTIC in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with RHOTIC
2 longer words begin with RHOTIC.
Shorter words from the letters in RHOTIC
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Common questions about RHOTIC
- Is RHOTIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RHOTIC, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RHOTIC worth?
- RHOTIC is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RHOTIC mean?
- Describing an accent in which the letter r is pronounced after a vowel, as in the word hard.
- What letters can be added to RHOTIC?
- No single letter can be added to RHOTIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RHOTIC:
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