FOUGHTEN is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. FOUGHTEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FOUGHTEN?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FOUGHTEN is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FOUGHTEN
No single letter turns FOUGHTEN into another word.
How FOUGHTEN scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in FOUGHTEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so FOUGHTEN has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about FOUGHTEN
- All 8 letters of FOUGHTEN are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does FOUGHTEN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaic
Worn out and exhausted after a long struggle or fight.
This old form survives mostly in the phrase "foughten field", a battlefield after the fighting is over. Today a speaker would normally choose fought, so foughten feels deliberately antique.
How FOUGHTEN is used
Archaic or literary; found in historical writing and Scots-flavoured verse.
- The soldiers returned, foughten and silent, from the hills.
- After three rounds the boxer looked thoroughly foughten.
- They crossed a foughten field strewn with broken shields.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FOUGHTEN and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FOUGHTEN
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Common questions about FOUGHTEN
- Is FOUGHTEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FOUGHTEN, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FOUGHTEN worth?
- FOUGHTEN is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FOUGHTEN mean?
- Worn out and exhausted after a long struggle or fight.
- What letters can be added to FOUGHTEN?
- No single letter can be added to FOUGHTEN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of FOUGHTEN:
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