What DOTS Means
DOTS is a form of DOT, which means:
- verb: scatter or intersperse like dots or studs“Hills constellated with lights”
- verb: distribute loosely“He scattered gun powder under the wagon”
- noun: a very small circular shape“a row of points”
- noun: the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DOTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 O1 T1 S1.
Anagrams of DOTS (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DOTS
13 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (7)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing DOTS
DOTS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.