CHOUSE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CHOUSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHOUSE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHOUSE is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHOUSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHOUSE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CHOUSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 194,019.
What does CHOUSE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To cheat or trick someone, especially out of money or property.
Chouse is an old word for swindling, normally followed by "of" or "out of" and the thing taken. It is thought to come from chiaus, the Turkish envoy who is said to have defrauded merchants in London in 1609. Modern writers use chouse mostly for a humorous, old-fashioned effect, and the spelling chowse also exists.
How CHOUSE is used
Archaic; found in older novels and in deliberately antique prose.
- They tried to chouse the old man out of his savings.
- No clerk in the town could chouse him twice.
- He swore he would never chouse a friend.
- The dealer would chouse any buyer who was careless.
- It was easy to chouse the heir of his rightful share.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHOUSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CHOUSE
The 6 tiles of CHOUSE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CHOUSE
4 longer words begin with CHOUSE.
Shorter words from the letters in CHOUSE
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Common questions about CHOUSE
- Is CHOUSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHOUSE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHOUSE worth?
- CHOUSE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHOUSE mean?
- To cheat or trick someone, especially out of money or property.
- What letters can be added to CHOUSE?
- CHOUSE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CHOUSE:
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