DOTH is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. DOTH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DOTH?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOTH is to know. It scores 8 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOTH
No single letter turns DOTH into another word.
How DOTH scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in DOTH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,212.
What does DOTH mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To do: the old third person singular form.
Doth is what does used to be, and it survives almost entirely inside quoted lines — the lady doth protest too much is the one everybody knows, usually misused. Writers reach for doth when they want the sentence to sound old, which is a different job from the one it originally had.
How DOTH is used
Goes with he, she, it and singular nouns. The plural form is do.
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
- What doth it profit a man to argue with the weather?
- He wrote doth where the modern text has does.
- Doth appears on nearly every page of the older edition.
- The hymn asks what the Lord doth require.
- She used doth once, for effect, and never again.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOTH and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in DOTH
2 words end in DOTH. Useful as a back hook: play DOTH onto a word already on the board.
Words with DOTH inside
23 words contain DOTH in the middle. Words that start with DOTH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DOTH
Common questions about DOTH
- Is DOTH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOTH, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOTH worth?
- DOTH is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOTH mean?
- To do: the old third person singular form.
- What letters can be added to DOTH?
- No single letter can be added to DOTH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of DOTH:
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