BRACH is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BRACH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BRACH?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BRACH is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BRACH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
brachsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BRACH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BRACH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does BRACH mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A female hound, especially one used in hunting and trained to track game by scent.
Brach was the standard term in old hunting manuals for a scent-hound bitch, distinguished from the male hounds that ran mainly by sight. Huntsmen valued a good brach for her nose and used her to find and follow the trail of the quarry before the rest of the pack was released. The word appears frequently in Shakespeare and other early English writing on hunting, but it dropped out of ordinary use as hunting vocabulary simplified. Today it survives mainly in historical writing about hunting rather than in everyday speech.
How BRACH is used
Archaic hunting term for a female scent-hound; met almost only in older texts.
- The huntsman praised the brach for finding the scent first.
- Old hunting records list each brach by name.
- The brach led the pack across the stream.
- A young brach was trained before her first season.
- The old play names a brach among the hunting dogs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BRACH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BRACH
Showing 24 of 68 words that begin with BRACH.
Words ending in BRACH
3 words end in BRACH. Useful as a back hook: play BRACH onto a word already on the board.
Words with BRACH inside
10 words contain BRACH in the middle. Words that start with BRACH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BRACH
Common questions about BRACH
- Is BRACH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BRACH, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BRACH worth?
- BRACH is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BRACH mean?
- A female hound, especially one used in hunting and trained to track game by scent.
- What letters can be added to BRACH?
- BRACH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BRACH:
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