GUT is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. GUT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GUT?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GUT is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GUT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
gutsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GUT scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in GUT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does GUT mean in Scrabble?
noun
The intestine or the stomach.
Gut as an adjective — a gut feeling, a gut reaction — is twentieth-century and rests on an idea about instinct that the biology has partly caught up with. The verb, as in gutting a building, came out of the fish trade.
How GUT is used
Countable and uncountable. Also a verb and an adjective.
- A gut feeling is not evidence and is often right.
- They gutted the building and kept the front wall.
- The word gut for instinct is twentieth-century.
- Gut bacteria outnumber the cells they live in.
- Two gut reactions that pointed in opposite directions.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GUT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GUT
The 3 tiles of GUT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GUT
Showing 24 of 83 words that begin with GUT.
Words ending in GUT
8 words end in GUT. Useful as a back hook: play GUT onto a word already on the board.
Words with GUT inside
17 words contain GUT in the middle. Words that start with GUT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GUT
Common questions about GUT
- Is GUT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GUT, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GUT worth?
- GUT is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GUT mean?
- The intestine or the stomach.
- What letters can be added to GUT?
- GUT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of GUT:
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