FETISH is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FETISH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FETISH?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FETISH is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FETISH
No single letter turns FETISH into another word.
How FETISH scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FETISH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does FETISH mean in Scrabble?
noun
An object believed to hold magical power, or a thing that someone is excessively or irrationally devoted to.
The word came into English from Portuguese, where it was first applied to charms and carved figures used in West African religions. Anthropologists still use it for an object thought to hold spiritual force. In everyday speech it more often means a strong obsession, as in a fetish for tidiness, and in psychology it names a fixation on an object or body part as a source of desire.
How FETISH is used
Used in anthropology, psychology and loosely in everyday speech for an obsession.
- The carved fetish hung above the doorway to ward off harm.
- He made a fetish of punctuality.
- Critics accused the firm of a fetish for cost-cutting.
- The museum keeps a nineteenth-century fetish from the Congo.
- Her fetish for old maps filled the whole spare room.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FETISH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FETISH
19 longer words begin with FETISH.
Shorter words from the letters in FETISH
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Common questions about FETISH
- Is FETISH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FETISH, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FETISH worth?
- FETISH is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FETISH mean?
- An object believed to hold magical power, or a thing that someone is excessively or irrationally devoted to.
- What letters can be added to FETISH?
- No single letter can be added to FETISH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FETISH:
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