DENCH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. DENCH is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DENCH?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DENCH is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DENCH
No single letter turns DENCH into another word.
How DENCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DENCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does DENCH mean in Scrabble?
adjective
slangBritish
Excellent, impressive, or admirably tough.
Dench spread through British urban and grime music slang as a general term of high praise, applied to anything from a track to a piece of clothing. It works much like sick or wicked in other slang generations, marking approval rather than describing a specific quality. The word stays firmly informal and youth-associated.
How DENCH is used
Slang; current mainly among younger British speakers, informal in any context.
- Everyone agreed the new track was dench.
- He called her trainers proper dench.
- That was a dench performance from start to finish.
- The crowd shouted dench after the final verse.
- She said the whole set was dench, no complaints.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DENCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DENCH
Common questions about DENCH
- Is DENCH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DENCH is not in it.
- How many points is DENCH worth?
- DENCH is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DENCH mean?
- Excellent, impressive, or admirably tough.
- What letters can be added to DENCH?
- No single letter can be added to DENCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DENCH:
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