SHOTT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SHOTT 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 SHOTT?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHOTT is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHOTT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHOTT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHOTT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 78,425.
What does SHOTT mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A shallow, often dry salt lake or lakebed found in the desert regions of North Africa, also spelled chott.
A shott typically fills with a thin layer of water only during the rainy season, leaving behind a hard, salt-crusted surface for most of the year that can shimmer like a lake from a distance. Geography writing on the Sahara and its margins uses shott and the alternate spelling chott interchangeably for these seasonal salt basins, which range from small hollows to features stretching many kilometres across. Because the crust can look deceptively solid, travellers crossing a shott must take care, since softer patches beneath the salt can trap vehicles or animals. The Arabic origin of shott reflects how long these features have been named and mapped by the peoples living around the Sahara.
How SHOTT is used
A technical term used mainly in geography and travel writing about North Africa, naming a shallow seasonal salt lake or its dry bed.
- The convoy skirted the edge of the shott to avoid the soft mud beneath.
- From a distance, the dry shott looked like a sheet of white ice.
- Rain briefly filled the shott before the water evaporated again.
- Geologists studied the salt crust that forms over each shott every dry season.
- Maps of the region marked several large shott basins near the mountains.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHOTT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SHOTT
8 longer words begin with SHOTT.
Words with SHOTT inside
10 words contain SHOTT in the middle. Words that start with SHOTT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SHOTT
Common questions about SHOTT
- Is SHOTT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHOTT, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHOTT worth?
- SHOTT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHOTT mean?
- A shallow, often dry salt lake or lakebed found in the desert regions of North Africa, also spelled chott.
- What letters can be added to SHOTT?
- SHOTT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHOTT:
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