TROPE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. TROPE 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 TROPE?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TROPE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TROPE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TROPE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TROPE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,892.
What stands out about TROPE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 TROPE mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A recurring theme, image, or figure of speech that appears so often in literature, film, or culture that it becomes a recognizable convention.
Critics originally used trope narrowly in rhetoric for a figurative use of language, such as a metaphor or metonymy, where a word carries a meaning beyond its literal sense. The word later broadened to cover any familiar storytelling pattern that audiences recognize instantly, such as the reluctant hero or the ticking clock in an action film, patterns writers can either embrace or deliberately subvert. Film and literature commentary now uses trope so often for these repeated devices that the older, narrower rhetorical sense is mostly confined to formal writing about language itself.
How TROPE is used
Widely used in modern criticism and casual conversation about film, television, and literature for familiar recurring devices.
- The film relied heavily on the chosen-one trope.
- Critics noted how the novel subverted a familiar trope.
- Metaphor is one of the oldest tropes in rhetoric.
- Fans debated whether the twist was a fresh idea or a tired trope.
- The lecture explained trope as a figure of speech before broadening it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TROPE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TROPE
The 5 tiles of TROPE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with TROPE
4 longer words begin with TROPE.
Words ending in TROPE
17 words end in TROPE. Useful as a back hook: play TROPE onto a word already on the board.
Words with TROPE inside
23 words contain TROPE in the middle. Words that start with TROPE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TROPE
Common questions about TROPE
- Is TROPE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TROPE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TROPE worth?
- TROPE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TROPE mean?
- A recurring theme, image, or figure of speech that appears so often in literature, film, or culture that it becomes a recognizable convention.
- What letters can be added to TROPE?
- TROPE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TROPE:
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