GANCH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. GANCH is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept GANCH?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GANCH is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GANCH
No single letter turns GANCH into another word.
How GANCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GANCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does GANCH mean in Scrabble?
verb
historical
To execute or torture a person by dropping or impaling the body on iron hooks.
Accounts of Ottoman and other early modern justice describe officials who would ganch a condemned prisoner from a height onto hooks fixed below, a method noted by European travellers as especially cruel. The word appears now only in history books and older travel writing, never in a modern legal or everyday sense.
How GANCH is used
Historical; used when describing a specific old form of execution, not in current speech.
- The traveller wrote that the sultan ordered the thief to ganch at dawn.
- Historians still debate how often rulers actually chose to ganch offenders.
- The chronicle describes a spot below the wall used to ganch prisoners.
- Few Western readers had heard of the practice of being ganched before that account.
- The essay traces how reports of ganching shaped European views of the empire.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GANCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GANCH
The 5 tiles of GANCH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GANCH
3 longer words begin with GANCH.
Shorter words from the letters in GANCH
Common questions about GANCH
- Is GANCH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GANCH is not in it.
- How many points is GANCH worth?
- GANCH is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GANCH mean?
- To execute or torture a person by dropping or impaling the body on iron hooks.
- What letters can be added to GANCH?
- No single letter can be added to GANCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GANCH:
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