HUSH is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. HUSH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HUSH?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HUSH is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HUSH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How HUSH scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in HUSH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 2 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 245,077.
What does HUSH mean in Scrabble?
verb
To make or become quiet.
Hush is a back-formation: the older word was husht, which was heard as a past tense and had the ending stripped off. A payment of hush money is seventeenth-century.
How HUSH is used
Hushed, hushing. Also a noun and an interjection.
- A hush fell that lasted about four seconds.
- The word hush is a back-formation from an older one.
- They hushed the whole thing up for a decade.
- Hush money is a seventeenth-century phrase.
- The ending was stripped off the older form to give hush.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HUSH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HUSH
19 longer words begin with HUSH.
Words ending in HUSH
1 words end in HUSH. Useful as a back hook: play HUSH onto a word already on the board.
Words with HUSH inside
5 words contain HUSH in the middle. Words that start with HUSH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HUSH
Common questions about HUSH
- Is HUSH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HUSH, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HUSH worth?
- HUSH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HUSH mean?
- To make or become quiet.
- What letters can be added to HUSH?
- HUSH takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of HUSH:
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