GERAH is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. GERAH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GERAH?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GERAH is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GERAH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
gerahsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GERAH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GERAH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does GERAH mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An ancient Hebrew unit of weight and a small coin, equal to one twentieth of a shekel.
A gerah appears in the Hebrew Bible as the smallest named measure of value, used to record tiny amounts of silver in transactions and religious offerings. Twenty of them made up a single shekel, so a gerah served roughly the role that a cent or a penny plays in a modern currency. Historians reconstruct its likely mass from surviving inscribed stones and ancient coins rather than from one single fixed standard.
How GERAH is used
A historical and biblical term, met chiefly in translations of scripture and discussions of ancient coinage.
- The old law fixed certain fines in gerah rather than in whole shekels.
- Archaeologists found a small stone weight marked as one gerah.
- Twenty gerah equaled a single shekel under the ancient system.
- The footnote explained that a gerah was the smallest coin mentioned in the text.
- Scholars still debate the precise modern equivalent of a gerah.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GERAH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GERAH
1 longer words begin with GERAH.
Shorter words from the letters in GERAH
Common questions about GERAH
- Is GERAH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GERAH, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GERAH worth?
- GERAH is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GERAH mean?
- An ancient Hebrew unit of weight and a small coin, equal to one twentieth of a shekel.
- What letters can be added to GERAH?
- GERAH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GERAH:
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