ROOT

4 letters 4 pts

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

  1. take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly"
  2. cause to take roots
  3. become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down"
  4. dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles"
  5. plant by the roots
  6. cheer for; "She roots for the Broncos"
  7. come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her depression"

Noun

  1. the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
  2. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
  3. a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
  4. the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
  5. 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"
  6. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
  7. (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
  8. 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.