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Is rhotic a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rhotic is a Scrabble US word. The word rhotic is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

R1H4O1T1I1C3

Is rhotic a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word rhotic is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

R1H4O1T1I1C3

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6-letter words (3 found)

RHOTIC,THORIC,TROCHI,

5-letter words (9 found)

CHIRO,CHIRT,CHOIR,CRITH,ICHOR,RICHT,ROTCH,TORCH,TORIC,

4-letter words (21 found)

CHIT,CITO,COIR,COIT,COTH,CRIT,HORI,ITCH,OTIC,RICH,RIOT,ROCH,ROTI,THIO,THIR,THRO,TICH,TIRO,TORC,TORI,TRIO,

3-letter words (21 found)

CHI,CIT,COR,COT,HIC,HIT,HOC,HOI,HOT,ICH,OCH,ORC,ORT,RHO,RIT,ROC,ROT,THO,TIC,TOC,TOR,

2-letter words (10 found)

CH,HI,HO,IO,IT,OH,OI,OR,TI,TO,

You can make 64 words from rhotic according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of rhotic

rhotic

Etymology

Back-formation from rhotacism, coined in 1968 by John C. Wells.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊ.tɪk/, [ˈɹəʊ̯.tʰɪk]
  • (US) enPR: rōʹtĭk, IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊ.tɪk/, [ˈɹoʊ̯.ɾɪk]
  • Rhymes: -əʊtɪk

Adjective

rhotic (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics, of an English accent) That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and bard or barred (/bɑːɹd/); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent.
    • 2009, Ingrid Rosenfelder, Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English, Thomas Hoffmann, Licia Siebers, World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected Papers from the 13th IAWE Conference, John Benjamins Publishing Company,
      Contrary to “traditional” descriptions in the literature, Jamaican English cannot be characterized as predominantly rhotic, exhibiting an overall degree of rhoticity of approximately 20 per cent.
  2. (linguistics, phonetics, of a phoneme) Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/ and /r/.

Antonyms

  • non-rhotic

Derived terms

  • prerhotic
  • rhoticity

Related terms

  • rhotacism

Noun

rhotic (plural rhotics)

  1. (phonetics) A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).
    • 2012, Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, 5: The Phonemes of Spanish, José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, Erin O'Rourke (editors), The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell), page 100,
      Spanish also has two rhotics, a tap /ɾ/(vibrante simple) and a trill /r/(vibrante múltiple).

Hyponyms

  • (rhotic phoneme): R-coloured vowel

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References

Further reading

  • Rhotic consonant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Rhotic vowel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Erhua on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Rhotic and non-rhotic accents on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Rhoticity in English on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Ch'orti', Chorti, hortic, orthic, thoric, tricho-, trochi

Source: wiktionary.org