CUISH is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CUISH 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 CUISH?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CUISH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CUISH
No single letter turns CUISH into another word.
How CUISH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CUISH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does CUISH mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A piece of plate armor that covers and protects the front of the thigh.
A cuish was buckled or strapped around the upper leg and usually paired with a matching piece protecting the knee, called a poleyn, to give a soldier continuous coverage from hip to shin. The word came into English from French armor terminology during the medieval and early modern periods, when full suits of plate became common on the battlefield.
How CUISH is used
A specialist term used mainly in descriptions of medieval and Renaissance armor.
- The knight's cuish protected his thigh from a sword strike.
- Museum cases displayed a matching pair of cuishes from a suit of armor.
- Each cuish was fastened with leather straps to the wearer's leg.
- Blacksmiths hammered the cuish from a single sheet of steel.
- Without a cuish, the thigh remained the most vulnerable part of a mounted soldier.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUISH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CUISH
1 longer words begin with CUISH.
Shorter words from the letters in CUISH
Common questions about CUISH
- Is CUISH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUISH, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUISH worth?
- CUISH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUISH mean?
- A piece of plate armor that covers and protects the front of the thigh.
- What letters can be added to CUISH?
- No single letter can be added to CUISH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CUISH:
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