LYCH is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 12 points
Yes for Scrabble. LYCH is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept LYCH?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LYCH is to know. It scores 12 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 2.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LYCH
No single letter turns LYCH into another word.
How LYCH scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in LYCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 122,538.
What does LYCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicBritish
A corpse or dead body — an old and now mostly literary word.
Lych is a variant spelling of lich, both from the Old English word for a corpse and cognate with German Leiche and Dutch lijk. It survives today chiefly inside compounds: the lych gate is the roofed churchyard gate where a coffin once waited for the priest, and older texts also use lych bell and lych way for the same funeral custom.
How LYCH is used
Rare on its own today; usually met inside the compound lych gate. Plural lyches.
- Old parish records use lych where a modern writer would write corpse.
- A lych gate sheltered the lych while the priest was fetched.
- The word lych survives mainly inside lych gate and lych bell.
- Two lyches lay side by side in the crypt below the chapel.
- The lych was carried along the lych way to the churchyard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LYCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LYCH
9 longer words begin with LYCH.
Words with LYCH inside
Showing 24 of 32 words that contain LYCH somewhere in the middle. Words that start with LYCH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LYCH
Common questions about LYCH
- Is LYCH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LYCH is not in it.
- How many points is LYCH worth?
- LYCH is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LYCH mean?
- A corpse or dead body — an old and now mostly literary word.
- What letters can be added to LYCH?
- No single letter can be added to LYCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of LYCH:
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