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riot

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Is riot a Scrabble word?

Yes, riot is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 4 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of riot?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (figurative) A wide and unconstrained variety.Examples: "In summer this flower garden is a riot of colour."; "The human world is contracting not only prospectively but to the backward-probing eye of culture-history. Nevertheless we are as yet far from able to reduce the riot of spoken languages to a small number of “stocks.”"

2. (colloquial, uncountable) A humorous or entertaining event or person.Examples: "Check this out! We have to get this! I can't believe all this stuff! This is a total riot!"

3. (obsolete) Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.Examples: "the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day"

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.Examples: "The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base."

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.Examples: "Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law."; "Think of the insults, wrongs, and contumelies, / Ye bear from your proud lords—that your hard toil / Manures their fertile fields—you plow the earth, / You sow the corn, you reap the ripen'd harvest,— / They riot on the produce!— […]"

3. (transitive) To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.

4. (transitive) To annoy.

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "riot"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "riot"?

Scrabble
4 points
r1
i1
o1
t1
Words With Friends
4 points
r1
i1
o1
t1

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