BLENCH is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. BLENCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BLENCH?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BLENCH is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BLENCH
No single letter turns BLENCH into another word.
How BLENCH scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BLENCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 517,384.
What stands out about BLENCH
- BLENCH gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BLENCH mean in Scrabble?
verb
literary
To draw back or flinch suddenly from something frightening or painful.
Writers like to use blench for a small, involuntary movement of fear: the eyes narrow, the body jerks back, and the courage of the moment is gone. It is often confused with blanch, which means to turn pale, and the two overlap only in older texts where blench could also mean to grow pale. The word usually appears in negative sentences about someone who did not blench at danger.
How BLENCH is used
Literary and slightly old-fashioned; most often found in the negative, as in did not blench.
- The old soldier did not blench at the sound of the guns.
- She had to blench when the surgeon named the price.
- Few witnesses could look at the wreck without a blench of horror.
- Even the bravest knight might blench before such a beast.
- He tried not to blench as the dentist reached for the drill.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BLENCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BLENCH
5 longer words begin with BLENCH.
Shorter words from the letters in BLENCH
Common questions about BLENCH
- Is BLENCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BLENCH, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BLENCH worth?
- BLENCH is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BLENCH mean?
- To draw back or flinch suddenly from something frightening or painful.
- What letters can be added to BLENCH?
- No single letter can be added to BLENCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BLENCH:
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