DOCHT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. DOCHT 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 DOCHT?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOCHT is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOCHT
No single letter turns DOCHT into another word.
How DOCHT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DOCHT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does DOCHT mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicScots
To have been able to do something; the archaic Scots past tense of the verb dow, meaning could or managed.
Docht belongs to a small group of Scots verbs, including dow itself, that mark ability rather than simple action, and docht is the form used for what someone was capable of doing in the past. It survives mainly in older Scots verse and in dialect writing rather than in ordinary modern speech.
How DOCHT is used
Archaic and Scots; found chiefly in older verse and dialect texts, not current speech.
- He docht na lift the stone, for all his strength.
- The old rhyme says she docht more than any man there.
- In the ballad, no rider docht cross the flooded ford.
- A gloss explains that docht once meant was able.
- The scribe wrote docht where a modern hand would write could.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOCHT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DOCHT
Common questions about DOCHT
- Is DOCHT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DOCHT is not in it.
- How many points is DOCHT worth?
- DOCHT is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOCHT mean?
- To have been able to do something; the archaic Scots past tense of the verb dow, meaning could or managed.
- What letters can be added to DOCHT?
- No single letter can be added to DOCHT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DOCHT:
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