COOCH is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. COOCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COOCH?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COOCH is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COOCH
Front hooks — 1
scoochBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How COOCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in COOCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,344 thousand.
What does COOCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalinformalNorth American
A suggestive dance, historically performed at fairs and carnivals; short for hoochie-coochie.
Cooch names the shimmying, hip-swaying dance that became a sideshow attraction at American fairs and carnivals in the late nineteenth century, often billed under the fuller name hoochie-coochie. Showmen advertised the cooch tent as a daring novelty, and the dance influenced later stage and film routines that borrowed its rolling hip movement. Historians of popular entertainment still use the word when describing old carnival culture and its performers. Outside that historical context the word is now rarely used in careful writing.
How COOCH is used
Chiefly historical American slang, met mainly in writing about old carnival and sideshow entertainment.
- The carnival poster advertised a cooch show for one dime.
- Old photographs show performers dancing the cooch at the fair.
- The cooch tent drew the largest crowds of the whole carnival.
- Historians describe the cooch as a staple of early sideshow acts.
- She studied how the cooch influenced later burlesque routines.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COOCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of COOCH
The 5 tiles of COOCH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with COOCH
1 longer words begin with COOCH.
Words ending in COOCH
1 words end in COOCH. Useful as a back hook: play COOCH onto a word already on the board.
Words with COOCH inside
3 words contain COOCH in the middle. Words that start with COOCH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in COOCH
Common questions about COOCH
- Is COOCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COOCH, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COOCH worth?
- COOCH is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COOCH mean?
- A suggestive dance, historically performed at fairs and carnivals; short for hoochie-coochie.
- What letters can be added to COOCH?
- COOCH takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of COOCH:
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