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Is ratoon a Scrabble word?

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

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Is ratoon a Scrabble UK word?

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

R1A1T1O1O1N1

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Yes. The word ratoon is a Words With Friends word. The word ratoon is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

RATOON,

5-letter words (6 found)

ORANT,RATOO,ROTAN,ROTON,TORAN,TRONA,

4-letter words (18 found)

NOTA,ONTO,OONT,RANT,RATO,ROAN,RONT,ROON,ROOT,ROTA,ROTO,TARN,TARO,TOON,TORA,TORN,TORO,TRON,

3-letter words (24 found)

ANT,ART,NAT,NOO,NOR,NOT,OAR,OAT,ONO,OON,OOR,OOT,ORA,ORT,RAN,RAT,ROO,ROT,TAN,TAO,TAR,TON,TOO,TOR,

2-letter words (10 found)

AN,AR,AT,NA,NO,ON,OO,OR,TA,TO,

You can make 59 words from ratoon according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ratoon

ratoon

English

Alternative forms

  • rattoon

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹəˈtuːn/

Noun

ratoon (plural ratoons)

  1. A shoot sprouting from the root of a cropped plant, especially sugar cane.
    • 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xci,[1]
      Ratoons, probably so named from a corruption of the Spanish word brotones, are suckers and sprouts, that spring from the roots of canes that have previously been cut down.
  2. A rattan cane.
    • 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary entry for 13 September, 1660, in Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, London: Henry Colburn, 1848, 3rd edition, Volume 1, p. 134,[2]
      Mr. Hawley did give me a little black rattoon, painted and gilt.

Verb

ratoon (third-person singular simple present ratoons, present participle ratooning, simple past and past participle ratooned)

  1. (intransitive, of a plant) To sprout ratoons.
  2. (transitive) To cut a plant, especially sugar cane, so that it will produce ratoons.
    • 1969, M. Menzel; F. Wilson, "Genetic Relationships in Hibiscus Sect. Furcaria," Brittonia, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 100,
      Attempts to propagate them by cuttings (of flowering shoots) and to ratoon the old plants in the greenhouse in November were unsuccessful.

Derived terms

  • ratoonable
  • ratoon crop

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Anagrams

  • Notaro

Source: wiktionary.org