ROTOR is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ROTOR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ROTOR?
| 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 ROTOR is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROTOR
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
rotorsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ROTOR scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ROTOR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 2 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,876.
What stands out about ROTOR
- ROTOR is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
- ROTOR begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ROTOR mean in Scrabble?
noun
The rotating part of a machine, such as the spinning blades of a helicopter, the moving section of an electric motor, or a disc that turns with a wheel to help brake it.
A rotor turns around a fixed axis while a stationary part called a stator stays still around or beside it, a pairing found in motors, generators and turbines alike. The word is best known for the large overhead blades that lift a helicopter, but engineers also use it for the spinning core of an electric motor and for the disc that a car's brake pads squeeze against. Because it always names the part that moves, rotor appears across many different machines rather than one specific device.
How ROTOR is used
Widely used in engineering and everyday talk about helicopters, motors, generators and car brakes.
- The helicopter's rotor sliced through the morning air.
- A worn rotor can make a car shudder when braking.
- Engineers balanced the rotor before installing it in the turbine.
- The motor's rotor spins inside a ring of fixed magnets.
- Ice on the rotor blades grounded the flight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROTOR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ROTOR
3 longer words begin with ROTOR.
Words ending in ROTOR
1 words end in ROTOR. Useful as a back hook: play ROTOR onto a word already on the board.
Words with ROTOR inside
3 words contain ROTOR in the middle. Words that start with ROTOR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ROTOR
Common questions about ROTOR
- Is ROTOR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROTOR, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROTOR worth?
- ROTOR is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROTOR mean?
- The rotating part of a machine, such as the spinning blades of a helicopter, the moving section of an electric motor, or a disc that turns with a wheel to help brake it.
- What letters can be added to ROTOR?
- ROTOR takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ROTOR:
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