STOPE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. STOPE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STOPE?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STOPE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STOPE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How STOPE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in STOPE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 16,338.
What stands out about STOPE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 6 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 STOPE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
An excavation shaped like a flight of steps, cut through an ore body underground to remove the ore in stages.
Miners cut a stope by working upward or downward through an ore body in a series of steps, each step opening a new working face so several crews can extract rock at once without waiting on each other. Engineers choose among several methods depending on how stable the surrounding rock is, sometimes leaving pillars of unmined ore standing to hold up the roof, and sometimes filling a worked-out stope with waste rock or concrete once the ore is gone. The verb to stope describes the whole process of excavating ore this way, distinct from tunnelling, which simply drives a passage through rock without following the shape of an ore body. A finished stope often looks from the side like a giant staircase carved into solid rock, which is where the word's meaning comes from.
How STOPE is used
A specialist mining term, standard in geology and mining engineering rather than in everyday speech.
- The crew began cutting a new stope on the mine's lower level.
- Engineers filled the worked-out stope with waste rock for support.
- Ore was hauled up from the stope by a small underground rail cart.
- The old stope had been abandoned decades before the mine reopened.
- Water pooled at the base of the stope after the pumps failed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STOPE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of STOPE
The 5 tiles of STOPE in a different order — 6 found.
Words starting with STOPE
4 longer words begin with STOPE.
Words with STOPE inside
4 words contain STOPE in the middle. Words that start with STOPE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in STOPE
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Common questions about STOPE
- Is STOPE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STOPE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STOPE worth?
- STOPE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STOPE mean?
- An excavation shaped like a flight of steps, cut through an ore body underground to remove the ore in stages.
- What letters can be added to STOPE?
- STOPE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of STOPE:
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