ROTO is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. ROTO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ROTO?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ROTO is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROTO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ROTO scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ROTO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,890.
What stands out about ROTO
- The same 4 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 ROTO mean in Scrabble?
noun
printing
A printing process using an engraved cylinder, or a section of a newspaper or magazine printed by this method.
Roto is short for rotogravure, a printing technique where an image is etched into a rotating metal cylinder so that ink fills the recesses and transfers onto paper at high speed. Because the process reproduces photographs well, newspapers once used it for illustrated Sunday supplements, which were themselves nicknamed the roto. The word can refer either to the technique itself or to the printed section it produced.
How ROTO is used
Chiefly a printing-trade term; the newspaper-supplement sense is now largely historical.
- The old Sunday roto featured full-page photographs.
- The factory still used roto printing for its packaging designs.
- He collected roto sections from decades of old newspapers.
- Roto printing gave the magazine its rich photographic detail.
- The plant invested in a new roto press for higher speed runs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROTO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ROTO
The 4 tiles of ROTO in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with ROTO
Showing 24 of 32 words that begin with ROTO.
Words ending in ROTO
1 words end in ROTO. Useful as a back hook: play ROTO onto a word already on the board.
Words with ROTO inside
Showing 24 of 272 words that contain ROTO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ROTO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ROTO
Common questions about ROTO
- Is ROTO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROTO, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROTO worth?
- ROTO is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROTO mean?
- A printing process using an engraved cylinder, or a section of a newspaper or magazine printed by this method.
- What letters can be added to ROTO?
- ROTO takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ROTO:
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