CUT is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. CUT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CUT?
| 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 CUT is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CUT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CUT scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in CUT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What does CUT mean in Scrabble?
verb
To divide something with a knife or blade.
Cut belongs to a handful of English verbs with no change at all in the past — cut yesterday, cut tomorrow — and almost every one of them ends in t or d. The pattern is a leftover from a sound change that nobody notices any more.
How CUT is used
The past tense and past participle are both cut.
- He cut the rope and let the boat drift.
- A cut in funding announced as an efficiency.
- She is cutting the hedge into a shape it resents.
- The verb cut does not change in the past.
- Two cuts of the same joint at different prices.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CUT
Showing 24 of 122 words that begin with CUT.
Words ending in CUT
Showing 24 of 25 words that end in CUT. Useful as a back hook: play CUT onto a word already on the board.
Words with CUT inside
Showing 24 of 310 words that contain CUT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CUT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CUT
Common questions about CUT
- Is CUT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUT, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUT worth?
- CUT is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUT mean?
- To divide something with a knife or blade.
- What letters can be added to CUT?
- CUT takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of CUT:
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