LINCH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. LINCH 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept LINCH?
| 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 LINCH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LINCH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How LINCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LINCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does LINCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialecthistorical
A ledge or narrow ridge of unploughed land marking the boundary between two fields.
A linch forms where centuries of ploughing push soil downhill and leave a raised, grassy strip along the edge of a field, often following the same line for generations. Historians and archaeologists studying old farmland use linch, together with the related terms linchet and lynchet, to describe these ridges as evidence of how a field was worked long ago. Away from farming, linch could also name any ledge or a sharp, right-angled projection on an object, a sense closer to a simple physical shelf than to a field boundary. Today the word linch survives mainly in local history and archaeology rather than in everyday description of land.
How LINCH is used
Dialect and historical; met in writing about old field boundaries and local topography.
- A grassy linch ran along the whole edge of the old field.
- Archaeologists traced the linch to mark a boundary centuries old.
- The farmer never ploughed across the linch separating the two plots.
- A linch on the hillside showed where an older field once ended.
- The book used linch and lynchet almost as the same word.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LINCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LINCH
5 longer words begin with LINCH.
Words ending in LINCH
3 words end in LINCH. Useful as a back hook: play LINCH onto a word already on the board.
Words with LINCH inside
18 words contain LINCH in the middle. Words that start with LINCH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LINCH
Common questions about LINCH
- Is LINCH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LINCH is not in it.
- How many points is LINCH worth?
- LINCH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LINCH mean?
- A ledge or narrow ridge of unploughed land marking the boundary between two fields.
- What letters can be added to LINCH?
- LINCH takes 2 hooks: 2 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LINCH:
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