CRUNCH is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CRUNCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CRUNCH?
| 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 CRUNCH is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRUNCH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How CRUNCH scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CRUNCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,139 thousand.
What stands out about CRUNCH
- CRUNCH gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CRUNCH mean in Scrabble?
verb
To chew or crush something hard with a loud, grinding noise.
Crunching is as much a sound as an action: apples, dry cereal and frozen snow all crunch. The verb also covers anything that grinds noisily underfoot, such as gravel. In modern English it has spread to computing, where to crunch numbers means to process a large amount of data. As a noun the word names a crucial moment, as in the crunch of a decision.
How CRUNCH is used
Common as a verb of sound and as a noun for a critical point.
- The children crunch their toast loudly at breakfast.
- Boots crunch on the frozen path every morning.
- The analyst had to crunch a year of sales figures before noon.
- Dogs love to crunch bones.
- Dry leaves crunch under your feet in the autumn.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRUNCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CRUNCH
15 longer words begin with CRUNCH.
Shorter words from the letters in CRUNCH
Common questions about CRUNCH
- Is CRUNCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CRUNCH, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CRUNCH worth?
- CRUNCH is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRUNCH mean?
- To chew or crush something hard with a loud, grinding noise.
- What letters can be added to CRUNCH?
- CRUNCH takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CRUNCH:
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