Definitions for potato

potato po·ta·to

Spelling: [puh-tey-toh, -tuh]
IPA: /pəˈteɪ toʊ, -tə/

Potato is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in potato (aooptt).

Definitions for potato

noun

  1. Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
  2. the plant itself.
  3. sweet potato (defs 1, 2).

Origin of potato

1545-55; Spanish patata white potato, variant of batata sweet potato Taino

Examples for potato

We'll have peas with the fillet, and potato balls and Brussels sprouts.

Esther Choi of Mokbar said she has made Korean potato pancakes called gam ja jun, and Charles Rodriguez of PRINT.

Separate the egg, beat the yolk, and mix it with the potato.

Most of the vendors were, like this woman, honorary Jews for the night, not that Jews have a monopoly on potato pancakes.

She came to the Latke Festival because she loved any dish so based around the potato.

Few of the flowers merely meant for ornament are so ethereal as a potato.

More clumsily, fireworks stand in for the Big Bang and a potato and peas are invoked to explain relativity.

Then another layer of meat, potato, &c., till the dish is full.

"Neither have I," quoth Bagley, and filled his mouth with mutton and potato.

In 2010, Barber and his colleagues started working with the Ruffles potato chip marketing team.

Word Value for potato
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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