HOTCH is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. HOTCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOTCH?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOTCH is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOTCH
No single letter turns HOTCH into another word.
How HOTCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HOTCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 784,245.
What stands out about HOTCH
- HOTCH 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 HOTCH mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialect
To move with a jerking, jolting, or bouncing motion; to fidget or shake restlessly.
Hotch describes an uneven, jerky movement, the kind of shaking that comes from being bounced on a rough road or from restless fidgeting in a seat. The word survives mainly in English and Scots dialect speech rather than in standard writing. It is closely related to the first part of hotchpotch, an old word for a dish or mixture stirred and jolted together. Writers recording dialect speech sometimes use hotch to capture this small, restless jerking motion.
How HOTCH is used
A dialect verb, found chiefly in regional speech and in writing that represents dialect.
- The old cart would hotch over every pothole in the lane.
- The child began to hotch about impatiently on the bench.
- The wagon seemed to hotch and rattle down the hill.
- He watched the nervous dog hotch from paw to paw.
- The boat continued to hotch on the choppy water.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOTCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOTCH
7 longer words begin with HOTCH.
Words with HOTCH inside
2 words contain HOTCH in the middle. Words that start with HOTCH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HOTCH
Common questions about HOTCH
- Is HOTCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOTCH, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOTCH worth?
- HOTCH is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOTCH mean?
- To move with a jerking, jolting, or bouncing motion; to fidget or shake restlessly.
- What letters can be added to HOTCH?
- No single letter can be added to HOTCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HOTCH:
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