COOTIE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. COOTIE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COOTIE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COOTIE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COOTIE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cootiesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COOTIE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in COOTIE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,850.
What does COOTIE mean in Scrabble?
noun
slanghistorical
A body louse, especially as the term was used by soldiers in the trenches of the First World War.
The word most likely comes from a Malay term for a biting insect, brought into English by men who had served in Southeast Asia before it spread through the ranks during the First World War. Damp, crowded trench conditions made infestation a constant problem, and troops organized informal hunts and swapped tips for getting rid of the pests. Over time the plain insect sense softened into the children's term cooties, an imaginary germ said to be caught from other kids, especially in playground games about avoiding the opposite sex. That lighter, invented meaning of cooties is now far better known than cootie's original sense as a simple word for a louse.
How COOTIE is used
Informal noun, now mostly historical; the related word cooties survives in children's playground slang.
- The soldier scratched at a cootie bite through his uniform.
- Memoirs describe daily cootie hunts in the trenches.
- A single cootie could multiply into hundreds within weeks.
- The men joked grimly about who had the worst cootie problem.
- Old war letters mention cootie powder issued to the troops.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COOTIE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COOTIE
1 longer words begin with COOTIE.
Shorter words from the letters in COOTIE
Common questions about COOTIE
- Is COOTIE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COOTIE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COOTIE worth?
- COOTIE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COOTIE mean?
- A body louse, especially as the term was used by soldiers in the trenches of the First World War.
- What letters can be added to COOTIE?
- COOTIE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of COOTIE:
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