CLAUGHTED is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. CLAUGHTED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CLAUGHTED?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLAUGHTED is to know. It scores 16 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLAUGHTED
No single letter turns CLAUGHTED into another word.
How CLAUGHTED scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CLAUGHTED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CLAUGHTED has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CLAUGHTED
- All 9 letters of CLAUGHTED are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CLAUGHTED mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectScots
To seize or clutch at something: the past tense of claught.
Claught is the Scots relative of clutch, and it keeps the suddenness that clutch has lost: you claught at a rope going past, not at an idea. Like much of the Scots verb stock it reached print through poetry, which is why claughted is commoner in books than the present tense.
How CLAUGHTED is used
Past tense of claught, often with at: he claughted at the rail.
- He claughted at the rail and missed it by a hand.
- She claughted the child back from the edge without a word.
- They claughted whatever the flood had not already taken.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLAUGHTED and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CLAUGHTED
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Common questions about CLAUGHTED
- Is CLAUGHTED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CLAUGHTED, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CLAUGHTED worth?
- CLAUGHTED is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLAUGHTED mean?
- To seize or clutch at something: the past tense of claught.
- What letters can be added to CLAUGHTED?
- No single letter can be added to CLAUGHTED to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CLAUGHTED:
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