CRWTH is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CRWTH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CRWTH?
| 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 CRWTH is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRWTH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
crwthsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CRWTH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CRWTH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What stands out about CRWTH
- CRWTH has no vowel at all, not even a Y — one of 5 such words at 5 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CRWTH mean in Scrabble?
noun
musichistorical
An ancient Welsh musical instrument with strings played with a bow, related to the early lyre and the violin family.
A crwth typically has six strings stretched over a flat bridge and a rectangular soundbox, and players both bow the strings and pluck some of them with the thumb. It was widely played in Wales for centuries before falling out of common use, though it has since been revived by folk musicians interested in early instruments. The name crwth is pronounced roughly like crooth, and the same instrument is sometimes called a crowd in older English texts. Its distinct construction makes a crwth an important example of how bowed string instruments developed before the modern violin.
How CRWTH is used
A specialist term used mainly in music history and folk revival contexts rather than everyday speech.
- The folk musician performed an old ballad on a crwth.
- A crwth from the eighteenth century is displayed in the museum.
- She learned to bow the crwth after studying old manuscripts.
- The festival featured a workshop on building a traditional crwth.
- Recordings of the crwth reveal a sound between a fiddle and a lyre.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRWTH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CRWTH
1 longer words begin with CRWTH.
Shorter words from the letters in CRWTH
Common questions about CRWTH
- Is CRWTH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CRWTH, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CRWTH worth?
- CRWTH is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRWTH mean?
- An ancient Welsh musical instrument with strings played with a bow, related to the early lyre and the violin family.
- What letters can be added to CRWTH?
- CRWTH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CRWTH:
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