CURCH is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CURCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CURCH?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CURCH is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CURCH
No single letter turns CURCH into another word.
How CURCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CURCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,568 thousand.
What does CURCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsarchaic
A woman's plain linen kerchief or cap, worn especially in older Scots dress.
A curch was a simple head covering, usually a folded square of linen, tied under the chin or pinned in place, worn by women in Scotland and northern England before more elaborate bonnets became common. It marked ordinary, often married, women rather than the fashionable caps of wealthier households, and appears frequently in older Scots poetry and ballads. The word is now confined to historical and dialect writing rather than modern dress. It is closely related to the general English word kerchief, both descending from the same root meaning to cover the head.
How CURCH is used
Archaic and Scots; found in historical writing and older ballads rather than modern speech.
- The old woman wore a plain white curch tied beneath her chin.
- In the ballad the maiden loosens her curch before the mirror.
- Museum displays show a curch alongside other traditional Scots dress.
- Her grandmother still called any headscarf a curch.
- The portrait showed a servant girl in apron and curch.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CURCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CURCH
3 longer words begin with CURCH.
Shorter words from the letters in CURCH
Common questions about CURCH
- Is CURCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CURCH, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CURCH worth?
- CURCH is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CURCH mean?
- A woman's plain linen kerchief or cap, worn especially in older Scots dress.
- What letters can be added to CURCH?
- No single letter can be added to CURCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CURCH:
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