TOPOI is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. TOPOI 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 TOPOI?
| 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 TOPOI is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TOPOI
No single letter turns TOPOI into another word.
How TOPOI scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TOPOI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 24,897.
What does TOPOI mean in Scrabble?
noun
literarytechnical
Traditional, recurring themes, arguments, or figures of speech in literature and rhetoric that writers repeat and adapt across many different works.
Literary critics use topoi, the plural of the Greek topos, to describe the stock ideas and conventional turns of phrase that keep reappearing across a tradition, such as the modesty topos where a writer claims to be unworthy of the task or the locus amoenus, an idealized peaceful landscape. Because these patterns get passed down and reworked from one generation of writers to the next, scholars treat topoi as evidence of a shared literary inheritance rather than as signs of unoriginal copying. The word appears almost exclusively in academic writing about rhetoric, classical literature, and literary history.
How TOPOI is used
A specialized term from literary and rhetorical scholarship, rarely used outside academic discussion of recurring literary conventions.
- The lecture traced several topoi common to medieval love poetry.
- Scholars identified recurring topoi across the epic tradition.
- The modesty topos is one of the oldest topoi in rhetoric.
- Her thesis catalogued the topoi shared by Renaissance sonnets.
- Ancient orators drew on familiar topoi to build their arguments.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TOPOI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TOPOI
2 longer words begin with TOPOI.
Words with TOPOI inside
16 words contain TOPOI in the middle. Words that start with TOPOI are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TOPOI
Common questions about TOPOI
- Is TOPOI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TOPOI, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TOPOI worth?
- TOPOI is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TOPOI mean?
- Traditional, recurring themes, arguments, or figures of speech in literature and rhetoric that writers repeat and adapt across many different works.
- What letters can be added to TOPOI?
- No single letter can be added to TOPOI to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TOPOI:
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