HOCUS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. HOCUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOCUS?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOCUS is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOCUS
No single letter turns HOCUS into another word.
How HOCUS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HOCUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 147,046.
What does HOCUS mean in Scrabble?
verb
informalarchaic
To deceive or trick someone, or, especially in older use, to drug a person's food or drink in order to rob or take advantage of them.
To hocus someone originally meant to secretly spike their drink, often so that a thief could rob them once they became drowsy or confused, and the word carried a strong sense of criminal trickery. Over time hocus broadened into a milder, more general term for cheating, fooling, or misleading someone through some trick. The word is closely related to hocus-pocus, the phrase used by conjurers, and both trace back to the same idea of a deceptive performance.
How HOCUS is used
Informal and now old-fashioned; modern English more often uses trick, dupe, or drug in its place.
- The old story tells how thieves would hocus a traveler's ale before robbing him.
- He accused the card sharp of trying to hocus the other players.
- To hocus a customer's drink was a common trick among dishonest tavern keepers.
- She refused the offered cup, suspecting someone might hocus it.
- The con artist hoped to hocus the crowd with a rehearsed sleight of hand.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOCUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOCUS
6 longer words begin with HOCUS.
Shorter words from the letters in HOCUS
Common questions about HOCUS
- Is HOCUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOCUS, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOCUS worth?
- HOCUS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOCUS mean?
- To deceive or trick someone, or, especially in older use, to drug a person's food or drink in order to rob or take advantage of them.
- What letters can be added to HOCUS?
- No single letter can be added to HOCUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HOCUS:
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