LEACHIEST is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. LEACHIEST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LEACHIEST?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LEACHIEST is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LEACHIEST
No single letter turns LEACHIEST into another word.
How LEACHIEST scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in LEACHIEST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so LEACHIEST has to be built on the board across turns.
What does LEACHIEST mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Most leachy; allowing liquids to percolate through most readily, as with porous soil.
Agronomists and soil scientists use leachiest to rank sandy or rocky ground by how easily water and dissolved nutrients pass straight through it, the superlative form of the adjective leachy. Soil described this way holds moisture and fertilizer poorly compared with denser, less permeable ground.
How LEACHIEST is used
Used in soil science and agriculture rather than everyday speech.
- The leachiest fields needed frequent watering to keep nutrients in place.
- Sandy plots proved the leachiest of all the test sites.
- Farmers avoided planting in the leachiest patch of the field.
- The report ranked each soil sample from least to leachiest.
- Even heavy fertilizing failed on the leachiest ground.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LEACHIEST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about LEACHIEST
- Is LEACHIEST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LEACHIEST, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LEACHIEST worth?
- LEACHIEST is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LEACHIEST mean?
- Most leachy; allowing liquids to percolate through most readily, as with porous soil.
- What letters can be added to LEACHIEST?
- No single letter can be added to LEACHIEST to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of LEACHIEST:
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