KEECH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. KEECH is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept KEECH?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KEECH is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KEECH
No single letter turns KEECH into another word.
How KEECH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in KEECH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 285,180.
What does KEECH mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicdialect
A lump of rolled fat or tallow, especially one prepared by a butcher.
A keech was formed when a butcher gathered and rolled animal fat into a compact lump for storage or sale, and the word appears in this sense in Shakespeare's plays. In some regional dialects the same word later came to mean rubbish or refuse in general. Today keech survives mainly as a curiosity in glossaries of old and dialect English rather than in ordinary speech.
How KEECH is used
Rare outside historical texts, dialect dictionaries, and discussions of Shakespearean vocabulary.
- The butcher rolled the trimmings into a keech for later use.
- The old play mocked a character by comparing him to a greasy keech.
- Glossaries of dialect English still list keech among forgotten words.
- She found the word keech while reading an old Shakespeare footnote.
- The market stall once sold keech alongside other butcher's scraps.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KEECH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of KEECH
The 5 tiles of KEECH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with KEECH
1 longer words begin with KEECH.
Words with KEECH inside
2 words contain KEECH in the middle. Words that start with KEECH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in KEECH
Common questions about KEECH
- Is KEECH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and KEECH is not in it.
- How many points is KEECH worth?
- KEECH is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KEECH mean?
- A lump of rolled fat or tallow, especially one prepared by a butcher.
- What letters can be added to KEECH?
- No single letter can be added to KEECH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of KEECH:
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