CHOUT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. CHOUT is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CHOUT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHOUT is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHOUT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHOUT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHOUT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What stands out about CHOUT
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CHOUT mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A historical tax equal to one quarter of the revenue, collected by the Maratha rulers of India from neighbouring territories.
The chout was a levy that Maratha rulers demanded from lands outside their own territory during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, usually to spare the area from raiding. Historians treat chout as a forerunner of the related and better known tax called chauth, and the word now appears mainly in writing about Indian history rather than in current speech.
How CHOUT is used
Historical term; met in accounts of Maratha-era India, not in modern everyday use.
- Historians describe the chout as a quarter share of the harvest.
- Neighbouring rulers paid the chout to avoid Maratha raids.
- The chout was collected alongside a smaller regular tax.
- Old records list villages that failed to pay their chout.
- The chout system spread as Maratha power grew across India.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHOUT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CHOUT
The 5 tiles of CHOUT in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with CHOUT
1 longer words begin with CHOUT.
Words ending in CHOUT
4 words end in CHOUT. Useful as a back hook: play CHOUT onto a word already on the board.
Words with CHOUT inside
4 words contain CHOUT in the middle. Words that start with CHOUT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CHOUT
Common questions about CHOUT
- Is CHOUT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CHOUT is not in it.
- How many points is CHOUT worth?
- CHOUT is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHOUT mean?
- A historical tax equal to one quarter of the revenue, collected by the Maratha rulers of India from neighbouring territories.
- What letters can be added to CHOUT?
- CHOUT takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHOUT:
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