DACOIT is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. DACOIT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DACOIT?
| 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 DACOIT is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DACOIT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DACOIT scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DACOIT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What does DACOIT mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A member of an armed gang of robbers in India or Burma.
The word was widely used in colonial India and Burma for gangs who robbed villages and travellers, and the crime itself was called dacoity. It comes from the Hindi dakait, from dakaiti, meaning gang robbery. A variant spelling dakoit exists. Today it appears mostly in history books, older fiction and descriptions of banditry in the Chambal region and elsewhere.
How DACOIT is used
Historical and literary; modern reports usually say bandit or armed robber.
- The villagers feared the dacoit who raided the hills at night.
- A band of dacoit riders stopped the carts on the forest road.
- The novel follows a dacoit turned folk hero.
- Police tracked the dacoit through the ravines for months.
- The traveller wrote that the dacoit took his horse and his purse.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DACOIT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DACOIT
5 longer words begin with DACOIT.
Shorter words from the letters in DACOIT
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Common questions about DACOIT
- Is DACOIT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DACOIT, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DACOIT worth?
- DACOIT is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DACOIT mean?
- A member of an armed gang of robbers in India or Burma.
- What letters can be added to DACOIT?
- DACOIT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DACOIT:
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