KEHUA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. KEHUA 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept KEHUA?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KEHUA is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KEHUA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
kehuasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How KEHUA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in KEHUA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does KEHUA mean in Scrabble?
noun
New Zealand
A ghost or spirit of the dead in Maori tradition, now used generally in New Zealand English.
Older accounts describe a kehua as returning at night to warn or trouble living relatives, since Maori belief held that such spirits avoided daylight and firelight. English travellers and settlers borrowed the term directly rather than translating it, and it entered general New Zealand vocabulary during the nineteenth century. In looser modern speech a kehua can be little more than an old superstition retold at a campfire.
How KEHUA is used
New Zealand English; used in storytelling and folklore rather than everyday conversation.
- The old house was said to be home to a kehua.
- Grandmother's stories always ended with a kehua at the window.
- No one wanted to walk past the graveyard for fear of a kehua.
- The film borrowed kehua as the name for its central ghost.
- A kehua, the storyteller said, never shows itself by daylight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KEHUA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with KEHUA
1 longer words begin with KEHUA.
Shorter words from the letters in KEHUA
Common questions about KEHUA
- Is KEHUA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and KEHUA is not in it.
- How many points is KEHUA worth?
- KEHUA is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KEHUA mean?
- A ghost or spirit of the dead in Maori tradition, now used generally in New Zealand English.
- What letters can be added to KEHUA?
- KEHUA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of KEHUA:
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