FICHE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. FICHE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FICHE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FICHE is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FICHE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fichesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FICHE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FICHE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does FICHE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A flat sheet of film, especially microfilm, containing rows of miniaturized images or pages of text, read with a special viewer.
A fiche stores dozens or hundreds of document pages as tiny photographic images arranged in a grid on a single transparent sheet, making it possible to archive vast amounts of paper records in a small physical space. Libraries, courts and government offices relied heavily on fiche during the twentieth century to store newspapers, records and catalogues before digital scanning became common. The fuller compound microfiche is now the more familiar term, with fiche used as a shorter form in specialist and library contexts. Reading a fiche requires a dedicated viewer that enlarges the miniature images back to a legible size.
How FICHE is used
A technical, chiefly library and archival term, less common today than digital scanning.
- The librarian pulled out an old fiche to check the newspaper archive.
- Each fiche held hundreds of pages reduced to a tiny grid.
- The records office still keeps a cabinet of fiche from the 1970s.
- She loaded the fiche into the reader to find the article.
- Digitizing the collection meant retiring the old fiche system.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FICHE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FICHE
The 5 tiles of FICHE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with FICHE
1 longer words begin with FICHE.
Words ending in FICHE
3 words end in FICHE. Useful as a back hook: play FICHE onto a word already on the board.
Words with FICHE inside
3 words contain FICHE in the middle. Words that start with FICHE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FICHE
Common questions about FICHE
- Is FICHE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FICHE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FICHE worth?
- FICHE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FICHE mean?
- A flat sheet of film, especially microfilm, containing rows of miniaturized images or pages of text, read with a special viewer.
- What letters can be added to FICHE?
- FICHE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FICHE:
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