COALFISH is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. COALFISH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COALFISH?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COALFISH is to know. It scores 16 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COALFISH
No single letter turns COALFISH into another word.
How COALFISH scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in COALFISH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so COALFISH has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about COALFISH
- All 8 letters of COALFISH are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does COALFISH mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A dark-backed food fish of the cod family found in the North Atlantic, known as the saithe or pollock.
The coalfish takes its name from the blackish colour of its back. Anglers like it for the fight it gives, and cooks sell it as an inexpensive alternative to cod.
How COALFISH is used
Coalfish is mainly a British name for the fish, used in fishing and fish-market contexts.
- We caught a coalfish off the rocks at dusk.
- The fishmonger sold coalfish fillets at half the price of cod.
- A young coalfish often swims close to the shore.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COALFISH and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COALFISH
1 longer words begin with COALFISH.
Shorter words from the letters in COALFISH
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Common questions about COALFISH
- Is COALFISH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COALFISH, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COALFISH worth?
- COALFISH is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COALFISH mean?
- A dark-backed food fish of the cod family found in the North Atlantic, known as the saithe or pollock.
- What letters can be added to COALFISH?
- No single letter can be added to COALFISH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of COALFISH:
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