BUTOH is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BUTOH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BUTOH?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUTOH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUTOH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
butohsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BUTOH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BUTOH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does BUTOH mean in Scrabble?
noun
A style of Japanese avant-garde dance marked by slow, controlled movement and dancers in white body paint.
Butoh grew out of post-war Japan as a deliberately unsettling form of performance, trading fast steps and clear narrative for extremely unhurried, deliberate motion and often grotesque or vulnerable poses, performed by dancers coated head to toe in pale, ghostly makeup. It is taught and performed worldwide today, but the Japanese term butoh is kept in English rather than translated.
How BUTOH is used
A specialised term for a Japanese dance form; used in arts and performance writing rather than everyday speech.
- The dancers trained for years before performing butoh on stage.
- A butoh performance can last an hour with barely any music.
- She studied butoh in Tokyo before touring internationally.
- The festival closed with a haunting butoh piece under dim lighting.
- Critics praised the raw physicality of the butoh dancers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUTOH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BUTOH
1 longer words begin with BUTOH.
Shorter words from the letters in BUTOH
Common questions about BUTOH
- Is BUTOH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BUTOH, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BUTOH worth?
- BUTOH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUTOH mean?
- A style of Japanese avant-garde dance marked by slow, controlled movement and dancers in white body paint.
- What letters can be added to BUTOH?
- BUTOH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BUTOH:
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