COUTH is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. COUTH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COUTH?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COUTH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COUTH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COUTH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in COUTH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What stands out about COUTH
- 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 COUTH mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informalhumorous
Having polished manners and social refinement; well-mannered and sophisticated.
Couth exists today mainly as a joking, invented-sounding opposite of the far more common uncouth, formed by simply dropping the negative prefix rather than developing independently, even though a genuine Old English word couth once meant known or familiar. Someone described as couth behaves with the kind of polish expected at a formal dinner, in contrast to a person whose manners are rough or careless. Because the word still sounds slightly playful to many speakers, writers often reach for couth for light, self-aware humor rather than serious praise.
How COUTH is used
Informal and often used half-jokingly, as a back-formed opposite of uncouth rather than in serious formal writing.
- He tried to act couth in front of her parents.
- Their table manners were surprisingly couth for a picnic.
- She joked that moving her elbows off the table made her couth.
- The new intern seemed far more couth than the last one.
- A couth reply would have avoided the whole argument.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COUTH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of COUTH
The 5 tiles of COUTH in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with COUTH
7 longer words begin with COUTH.
Words ending in COUTH
3 words end in COUTH. Useful as a back hook: play COUTH onto a word already on the board.
Words with COUTH inside
12 words contain COUTH in the middle. Words that start with COUTH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in COUTH
Common questions about COUTH
- Is COUTH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COUTH, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COUTH worth?
- COUTH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COUTH mean?
- Having polished manners and social refinement; well-mannered and sophisticated.
- What letters can be added to COUTH?
- COUTH takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of COUTH:
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