FINCH is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. FINCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FINCH?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FINCH is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FINCH
No single letter turns FINCH into another word.
How FINCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FINCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does FINCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
Any of a large family of small, seed-eating songbirds with a short, thick, cone-shaped beak.
A finch is recognized chiefly by its stubby, powerful beak, which is adapted for cracking open seeds rather than catching insects. The family includes many familiar garden birds, and different finch species vary widely in color, from the plain brown of a house finch to the bright red of a rosy finch. Finches are common subjects in studies of evolution because closely related finch species on islands can develop noticeably different beak shapes. The word is used both for a single species and as a general name for the whole family.
How FINCH is used
Used in everyday speech for garden and wild birds, and in zoology for the wider bird family.
- A small finch landed on the feeder outside the kitchen window.
- The garden attracted at least one finch every morning.
- Darwin studied how each island finch had a slightly different beak.
- She could tell the finch apart from the sparrow by its thicker bill.
- A bright yellow finch perched briefly on the fence before flying off.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FINCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FINCH
3 longer words begin with FINCH.
Words ending in FINCH
7 words end in FINCH. Useful as a back hook: play FINCH onto a word already on the board.
Words with FINCH inside
7 words contain FINCH in the middle. Words that start with FINCH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FINCH
Common questions about FINCH
- Is FINCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FINCH, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FINCH worth?
- FINCH is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FINCH mean?
- Any of a large family of small, seed-eating songbirds with a short, thick, cone-shaped beak.
- What letters can be added to FINCH?
- No single letter can be added to FINCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FINCH:
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