roots

/ɹʊts/

noun

Ancestry.

NWL Collins ENABLE Wordle guess list

Noun 3 meanings

Ancestry.
“I have both Irish and German roots.”
Beginnings; origin.
“Jazz has its roots in blues.”
Grown-out hair, often of a grey or natural colour.
“I just coloured my hair and already my roots are showing.”

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ROOTS at a glance

ROOTS has 5 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (R 1 + O 1 + O 1 + T 1 + S 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,969 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

Rhymes with roots

All rhymes

LOTS₄
SHOTS₈
BOOTS₇
SPOTS₇
PILOTS₈
IDIOTS₇
ROBOTS₈
PATRIOTS₁₀
SHOOTS₉
RIOTS₅
SLOTS₅
PLOTS₇

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ROOMS₇
BOOTS₇
RIOTS₅
ROOFS₈
TOOTS₅
ROOKS₉
HOOTS₈
COOTS₇
FOOTS₈
ROUTS₅
LOOTS₅
ROOTY₈
POOTS₇
MOOTS₇
RORTS₅
ROODS₆
SOOTS₅
ROONS₅

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Letters

Vowels

Where the points come from

Every tile in ROOTS is worth 1 point, so its score comes from length, not rare letters.

How common is it?

ROOTS is more common than 95% of 5-letter words, so almost every player knows it.

How rare are its letters?

T is the rarest letter here: only 23% of 5-letter words contain one. S is the most common (46%).

Anagrams

Same 5 letters, different words

TORSOAll three

ROOSTAll three

TOROSAll three

STOORCollins only

ROTOSAll three

Wordle

ROOTS is accepted as a Wordle guess, but it is not on the answer list. As a guess it tests 4 different letters: R, O, T, S.

As a Wordle opener

ROOTS leaves about 196.4 of the 2,315 answers on average, better than 51% of the 12,694 words Wordle accepts.

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Noun 3 meanings

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