CUSHAW is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. CUSHAW is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CUSHAW?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CUSHAW is to know. It scores 14 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CUSHAW
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cushawsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CUSHAW scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CUSHAW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,035 thousand.
What does CUSHAW mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A large winter squash with a curved neck.
The cushaw is a squash grown for its mature fruit, which is gathered in autumn and kept through the cold months. Its rind is typically marked with stripes of green and grey or white, and the neck bends in a gentle crook. Gardeners and cooks in parts of the United States know it as an old-fashioned kitchen vegetable.
How CUSHAW is used
A gardening and cooking word, most familiar in the American South.
- The cushaw ripened on the vine until the first frost.
- She baked a cushaw and mashed the flesh for a pie.
- A single cushaw was enough to feed the whole table.
- The farmer stacked every cushaw in the cool barn.
- Seeds of the cushaw were saved from one year to the next.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUSHAW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CUSHAW
1 longer words begin with CUSHAW.
Shorter words from the letters in CUSHAW
Common questions about CUSHAW
- Is CUSHAW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUSHAW, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUSHAW worth?
- CUSHAW is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUSHAW mean?
- A large winter squash with a curved neck.
- What letters can be added to CUSHAW?
- CUSHAW takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CUSHAW:
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