YAUTIA is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. YAUTIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept YAUTIA?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YAUTIA is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YAUTIA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
yautiasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How YAUTIA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in YAUTIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does YAUTIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A tropical American plant of the arum family, grown for its starchy underground stems.
Yautia is cultivated across the Caribbean and Central and South America, where its tubers are boiled, fried or mashed much as potatoes would be. The leaves of some varieties are eaten as well, usually cooked like spinach. The name came into English from a Taino word, and the plant is also sold under names such as malanga and tannia.
How YAUTIA is used
Mostly met in cookery, farming and botanical writing about the Caribbean and Latin America.
- The market stall sold yautia next to yams and green plantains.
- She peeled the yautia and boiled it until it turned soft.
- A yautia plant has broad arrow-shaped leaves on tall stalks.
- Soup thickened with grated yautia is common in many island kitchens.
- Farmers in the valley still plant yautia on damp, shaded ground.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YAUTIA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with YAUTIA
1 longer words begin with YAUTIA.
Shorter words from the letters in YAUTIA
Common questions about YAUTIA
- Is YAUTIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YAUTIA, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YAUTIA worth?
- YAUTIA is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YAUTIA mean?
- A tropical American plant of the arum family, grown for its starchy underground stems.
- What letters can be added to YAUTIA?
- YAUTIA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of YAUTIA:
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