ROOTY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ROOTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ROOTY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ROOTY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROOTY
No single letter turns ROOTY into another word.
How ROOTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ROOTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 37,345.
What does ROOTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Full of or made up of roots; having the tangled, fibrous texture that a mass of roots produces.
Gardeners and foresters use rooty most often for ground that resists a spade because it is threaded through with roots, or for a pot-bound plant whose container is packed solid. The word keeps the plain shape of root plus the adjective ending -y, the same pattern seen in words like woody or leafy. A separate British and Australian army slang sense uses rooty as a noun for bread, but that is a different word history and not the sense described here.
How ROOTY is used
Used mainly of soil, ground, or a plant's root ball; informal rather than a technical botanical term.
- The path through the wood was so rooty that she kept tripping.
- He struggled to dig a rooty patch of ground near the old oak.
- The seedling had grown rooty enough to need a bigger pot.
- Rabbits avoided the rooty corner of the garden where digging was hard.
- A rooty riverbank made it difficult to pull the canoe ashore.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROOTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ROOTY
Common questions about ROOTY
- Is ROOTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROOTY, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROOTY worth?
- ROOTY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROOTY mean?
- Full of or made up of roots; having the tangled, fibrous texture that a mass of roots produces.
- What letters can be added to ROOTY?
- No single letter can be added to ROOTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ROOTY:
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