CROTCHET is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. CROTCHET is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CROTCHET?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CROTCHET is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CROTCHET
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CROTCHET scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in CROTCHET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CROTCHET has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CROTCHET mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
A musical note lasting a quarter of a whole note, or a whimsical and stubborn notion.
In British music teaching a crotchet is the beat note in common time, drawn as a filled dot with a stem. The word also has an older sense of an odd fixed idea that a person clings to. Americans call the musical note a quarter note.
How CROTCHET is used
Crotchet is the standard British word for the quarter note.
- Each bar contains four crotchet beats.
- He had a crotchet about never travelling on Fridays.
- The melody opens with a long crotchet followed by two quavers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CROTCHET and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CROTCHET
9 longer words begin with CROTCHET.
Shorter words from the letters in CROTCHET
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Common questions about CROTCHET
- Is CROTCHET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CROTCHET, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CROTCHET worth?
- CROTCHET is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CROTCHET mean?
- A musical note lasting a quarter of a whole note, or a whimsical and stubborn notion.
- What letters can be added to CROTCHET?
- CROTCHET takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of CROTCHET:
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