SHOTTEN is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. SHOTTEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHOTTEN?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHOTTEN is to know. It scores 10 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHOTTEN
No single letter turns SHOTTEN into another word.
How SHOTTEN scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in SHOTTEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 231,591.
What does SHOTTEN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing a fish, especially a herring or salmon, that has recently spawned and is thin and poor as food.
The word comes from the old idea of shooting out the roe or milt. A shotten fish was valued far less than a full one, so the term also became a byword for something spent and worthless. Cooks and fishermen once used it as a plain quality grade.
How SHOTTEN is used
Used mainly of herring and salmon in older fishing and cooking contexts.
- The market stall sold only shotten herring after the season turned.
- A shotten salmon is pale and thin compared with one heading upriver.
- Nobody wanted the shotten fish, which had little flavour left.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHOTTEN and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SHOTTEN
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Common questions about SHOTTEN
- Is SHOTTEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHOTTEN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHOTTEN worth?
- SHOTTEN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHOTTEN mean?
- Describing a fish, especially a herring or salmon, that has recently spawned and is thin and poor as food.
- What letters can be added to SHOTTEN?
- No single letter can be added to SHOTTEN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of SHOTTEN:
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