1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Motu in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does motu mean? Is motu a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is motu worth? motu how many points in Words With Friends? What does motu mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for motu

See how to calculate how many points for motu.

Is motu a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word motu is a Scrabble US word. The word motu is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

M3O1T1U1

Is motu a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word motu is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

M3O1T1U1

Is motu a Words With Friends word?

The word motu is NOT a Words With Friends word.

Our tools

Valid words made from Motu

Results

4-letter words (1 found)

MOTU,

3-letter words (6 found)

MOT,MOU,MUT,OUT,TOM,TUM,

2-letter words (7 found)

MO,MU,OM,OU,TO,UM,UT,

You can make 14 words from motu according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of motu

motu

English

Etymology

From a descendant of Proto-Polynesian *motu.

Pronunciation

Noun

motu (plural motus)

  1. A reef islet formed by broken coral and sand, surrounding an atoll.

See also

Anagrams

  • MOUT, Muto, mout, toum

Finnish

Etymology

From Motu [Term?].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmotu/, [ˈmo̞t̪u]
  • Rhymes: -otu
  • Syllabification(key): mo‧tu
  • Hyphenation(key): mo‧tu

Noun

motu

  1. Motu (language)

Declension

Derived terms

compounds
  • hiri-motu

Anagrams

  • tomu

Isubu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀ntʊ̀.

Noun

motu m (plural batu)

  1. a man, an adult male

References

  • Joseph Merrick, Alfred Saker, A Grammar of the Isubu Tongue (1852)

Latin

Noun

mōtū m

  1. ablative singular of mōtus (“movement, motion”)

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *motu (compare with Hawaiian moku) from Proto-Oceanic *motus (“broken off, detached”) (compare with Fijian yamotu), possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-utus.

Noun

motu

  1. island, country, land, nation, clump of trees, ship; anything separated or isolated
  2. cut, wound

Verb

motu

  1. to sever, cut, cut off, set free, separate
  2. to be separated, moved to a distance - especially in the phrase motu ki te ara
  3. to be set free, escape
  4. (stative) to be cut, severed

Descendants

  • Maori: mou

See also

  • moutere
  • whenua (“land”)

References

Further reading

  • “motu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Niuean

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *motu.

Noun

motu

  1. island

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *motu (compare with Maori motu, Hawaiian moku) from Proto-Oceanic *motus (“broken off, detached”) (compare with Fijian yamotu), possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-utus.

Noun

motu

  1. island (usually a small islet)

References

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *motu (compare with Maori motu, Hawaiian moku) from Proto-Oceanic *motus (“broken off, detached”) (compare with Fijian yamotu), possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-utus.

Noun

motu

  1. island

References

Tonga (Malawi)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jótò.

Noun

motu class 3

  1. fire

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *motu (compare with Maori motu, Hawaiian moku) from Proto-Oceanic *motus (“broken off, detached”) (compare with Fijian yamotu), possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-utus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo.tu/

Noun

motu

  1. island

Related terms

  • otu

References


Source: wiktionary.org