ECH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 8 points
It depends on the list you play by. ECH 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 8 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ECH?
| 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: 62 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ECH is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 11 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ECH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ECH scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ECH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What does ECH mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To eke out a thin stock of something, such as income or verse, by piecing more onto it.
Ech is an old spelling variant of eke, used by Shakespeare and other early writers to mean stretching out a small supply, income or piece of writing by adding more to it. It survives only in older English texts.
How ECH is used
Archaic and literary; a variant of eke found in older English texts.
- The poet asked the muse to ech his feeble verse.
- He tried to ech his small income with extra work.
- The old text uses ech where a modern writer would say eke out.
- She hoped to ech the meagre supplies until spring.
- The chronicle says the monks did ech their stores through the winter.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ECH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ECH
The 3 tiles of ECH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ECH
Showing 24 of 94 words that begin with ECH.
Words ending in ECH
Showing 24 of 40 words that end in ECH. Useful as a back hook: play ECH onto a word already on the board.
Words with ECH inside
Showing 24 of 739 words that contain ECH somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ECH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ECH
Common questions about ECH
- Is ECH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ECH is not in it.
- How many points is ECH worth?
- ECH is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ECH mean?
- To eke out a thin stock of something, such as income or verse, by piecing more onto it.
- What letters can be added to ECH?
- ECH takes 11 hooks: 8 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ECH:
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