FITCH is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. FITCH 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 FITCH?
| 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 FITCH is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FITCH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How FITCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FITCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does FITCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
Britishhistorical
A polecat, or the fur of a polecat once used for making paintbrushes and trimming garments.
Fitch was once a common name in Britain for the polecat, a small dark-furred relative of the weasel, and the same word later came to describe the animal's fur once it was harvested and sold. Fitch fur was valued for lining coats and for the bristles of artists' paintbrushes, which were sometimes labelled simply as fitch brushes. The word has become uncommon outside older trade and craft writing, where fitch still names both the animal and the material taken from it. Painters occasionally still refer to a fitch when describing a particular flat, stiff-bristled brush shape.
How FITCH is used
Mostly historical or specialist; met in older British writing and in the names of certain paintbrush shapes.
- The old trapper sold fitch pelts at the country market.
- Her coat was trimmed with fitch instead of more costly fur.
- The artist preferred a flat fitch for laying down broad strokes of paint.
- The catalogue listed several sizes of fitch brush for oil painting.
- Naturalists once used fitch as another name for the common polecat.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FITCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FITCH
8 longer words begin with FITCH.
Shorter words from the letters in FITCH
Common questions about FITCH
- Is FITCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FITCH, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FITCH worth?
- FITCH is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FITCH mean?
- A polecat, or the fur of a polecat once used for making paintbrushes and trimming garments.
- What letters can be added to FITCH?
- FITCH takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FITCH:
Open FITCH in the Word Finder