KUTCH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. KUTCH 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 KUTCH?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KUTCH is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 3.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KUTCH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
kutchaChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How KUTCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in KUTCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 784,245.
What does KUTCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A reddish-brown astringent extract obtained from the wood of certain acacia trees, used in tanning leather and in dyeing.
Kutch is boiled down from the heartwood of trees such as Acacia catechu until it thickens into a dark resin, and tanners have long prized it for hardening and colouring animal hides. The same substance appears under several other names, including catechu and cutch, depending on the region and trade that processed it. Dyers also use kutch to give cotton and other fabrics a durable brown shade.
How KUTCH is used
Encountered mainly in older manuals on tanning, dyeing and the leather trade rather than in everyday speech.
- The tanner soaked the hides in a solution of kutch to darken and toughen them.
- Traders shipped barrels of kutch from India to leather works abroad.
- Kutch gave the cotton cloth its deep brown tint.
- The old recipe called for kutch, lime and water boiled together.
- Workers described the kutch as a hard, brittle resin before it was dissolved.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KUTCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with KUTCH
2 longer words begin with KUTCH.
Shorter words from the letters in KUTCH
Common questions about KUTCH
- Is KUTCH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and KUTCH is not in it.
- How many points is KUTCH worth?
- KUTCH is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KUTCH mean?
- A reddish-brown astringent extract obtained from the wood of certain acacia trees, used in tanning leather and in dyeing.
- What letters can be added to KUTCH?
- KUTCH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of KUTCH:
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