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Is potato a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word potato is a Scrabble US word. The word potato is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is potato a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word potato is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

P3O1T1A1T1O1

Is potato a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word potato is a Words With Friends word. The word potato is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (2 found)

PATOOT,POTATO,

5-letter words (1 found)

POTTO,

4-letter words (6 found)

ATOP,OTTO,POOT,POTT,TOOT,TOPO,

3-letter words (18 found)

APO,APT,ATT,OAT,OOP,OOT,OPA,OPT,PAT,POA,POO,POT,TAO,TAP,TAT,TOO,TOP,TOT,

2-letter words (7 found)

AT,OO,OP,PA,PO,TA,TO,

You can make 34 words from potato according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of potato

potato

Alternative forms

  • potatoe (obsolete)
  • p'tater, tater (dialectal or informal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/, [pə̥ˈtʰeɪtʰəʊ]
  • (General American) enPR: pə-tāʹtō, IPA(key): /pəˈteɪ.toʊ/, [pə̥ˈtʰeɪɾoʊ], [pə̥ˈtʰeɪɾə]
  • Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

Noun

potato (countable and uncountable, plural potatoes)

  1. The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
  2. (informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.
  3. Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
    1. (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
    2. (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
    3. (humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.

Synonyms

  • (plant): p'tater (dialectal), spud (slang), tater (Britain, US, informal), tatie (Scotland, Cumbria, dialect), tator (eye dialect)
  • (vegetable): Donovan (archaic slang), earthapple (rare), murphy, bog orange (obsolete slang), Irish apricot (obsolete slang), Irish fruit (obsolete slang), mickey
  • (low-end computer): toaster (slang)

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Translations

Verb

potato (third-person singular simple present potatoes, present participle potatoing, simple past and past participle potatoed)

  1. (slang, transitive) To hit very hard; to pummel.
  2. (transitive) To hit with a thrown or fired potato.

Interjection

potato

  1. (onomatopoeia, often repeated) The rhythmic sound produced by a V-twin engine—a distinctive deep, throaty exhaust note.

Anagrams

  • patoot, topato

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English potato.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poˈtato/
  • Rhymes: -ato

Noun

potato (plural potati)

  1. potato
    Synonym: terpomo

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poˈta.to/
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Hyphenation: po‧tà‧to

Participle

potato (feminine potata, masculine plural potati, feminine plural potate)

  1. past participle of potare

Anagrams

  • optato, topato

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /poːˈtaː.toː/, [poːˈt̪äːt̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /poˈta.to/, [poˈt̪äːt̪o]

Verb

pōtātō

  1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of pōtō

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Source: wiktionary.org