What PROTO Means
- adjective: indicating the first or earliest or original“‘proto’ is a combining form in a word like ‘protolanguage’ that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PROTO is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 R1 O1 T1 O1.
Anagrams of PROTO (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In PROTO
27 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.
4 letter words (10)
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing PROTO
PROTO appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
ANTIPROTONDIPROTODONPROTOAVISPROTOCOLPROTOCOLEDPROTOCOLICPROTOCOLSPROTOCTISTPROTODERMPROTODERMSPROTOGENICPROTOGINEPROTOGINESPROTOGYNYPROTOHUMANPROTONPROTONATEPROTONATEDPROTONATESPROTONEMAPROTONEMALPROTONICPROTONSPROTOPATHYPROTOPHYTEPROTOPLASMPROTOPLASTPROTOPODPROTOPODSPROTOREPROTORESPROTOSTARPROTOSTARSPROTOSTELEPROTOSTOMEPROTOTROPHPROTOTYPALPROTOTYPEPROTOTYPEDPROTOTYPES
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