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ROOT
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
R
1
O
1
O
1
T
1
Σ
4
Definitions
Verb
- take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly"
- cause to take roots
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down"
- dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles"
- plant by the roots
- cheer for; "She roots for the Broncos"
- come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her depression"
Noun
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word ROOT
Yes, ROOT is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 4 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
ROOT is a 4-letter word. It contains 2 vowels and 2 consonants.