HEUGH is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. HEUGH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HEUGH?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HEUGH is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HEUGH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HEUGH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HEUGH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 2 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 522,830.
What stands out about HEUGH
- HEUGH begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HEUGH mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A steep crag, cliff, or ravine, or a shaft or pit used in coal mining.
A heugh in the landscape sense is a rocky, steep-sided height or gorge, often named directly in Scottish place names along rivers and coastlines. In older mining language, the same word heugh could also refer to a pit or shaft sunk to reach a coal seam, showing how the term moved from natural landscape into industrial use. A path along a heugh often demands care because of the steep drop.
How HEUGH is used
Chiefly Scots, used for steep crags or ravines and, historically, for coal-pit shafts.
- The village sits below a steep heugh overlooking the sea.
- Miners once worked a heugh sunk beside the river.
- Walkers were warned to stay back from the heugh.
- Old records mention a heugh abandoned after the flood.
- The path skirts the edge of the heugh.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HEUGH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HEUGH
1 longer words begin with HEUGH.
Words ending in HEUGH
2 words end in HEUGH. Useful as a back hook: play HEUGH onto a word already on the board.
Words with HEUGH inside
6 words contain HEUGH in the middle. Words that start with HEUGH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HEUGH
Common questions about HEUGH
- Is HEUGH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HEUGH, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HEUGH worth?
- HEUGH is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HEUGH mean?
- A steep crag, cliff, or ravine, or a shaft or pit used in coal mining.
- What letters can be added to HEUGH?
- HEUGH takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HEUGH:
Open HEUGH in the Word Finder