CHERT is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CHERT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHERT?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHERT is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHERT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHERT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHERT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does CHERT mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock made almost entirely of silica, often occurring as rounded nodules within limestone or chalk.
Chert forms when silica dissolved in ancient seawater settles out and hardens within layers of limestone or chalk, producing a rock so tough that it fractures with sharp, glassy edges rather than crumbling. Flint, the variety long used by early humans to make cutting tools and arrowheads, is simply a dark form of chert, and specialists still use chert as the broader family name covering flint and its lighter-colored relatives. Because chert resists weathering far better than the softer rock around it, chert nodules often remain scattered across a field long after the surrounding limestone has eroded away. Toolmakers and archaeologists study chert deposits closely, since the availability of good chert shaped where prehistoric communities settled and traded.
How CHERT is used
A specialist term from geology and archaeology, describing the rock family that includes flint.
- The riverbed was scattered with pieces of gray chert.
- Archaeologists found arrowheads chipped from local chert.
- A thin band of chert ran through the limestone quarry.
- The chert nodules had weathered out of the surrounding chalk.
- Geologists sampled the chert to trace its silica source.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHERT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CHERT
The 5 tiles of CHERT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CHERT
4 longer words begin with CHERT.
Shorter words from the letters in CHERT
Common questions about CHERT
- Is CHERT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHERT, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHERT worth?
- CHERT is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHERT mean?
- A hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock made almost entirely of silica, often occurring as rounded nodules within limestone or chalk.
- What letters can be added to CHERT?
- CHERT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHERT:
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