LYNCH is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. LYNCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LYNCH?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LYNCH is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LYNCH
No single letter turns LYNCH into another word.
How LYNCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LYNCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 392,122.
What does LYNCH mean in Scrabble?
verb
historical
To put a person to death, typically by hanging, through mob action and without a lawful trial.
To lynch someone is to carry out a killing outside any legal process, usually by a crowd acting on rumor, accusation or prejudice rather than evidence examined in court. The verb comes from the name of a person associated with extralegal punishment in eighteenth-century America, and the practice became strongly associated with racial violence against Black Americans in the decades after the Civil War. Historians and journalists use the word lynch when documenting this history so that the scale and nature of the violence are not minimized. The word is occasionally used more loosely today to describe a crowd turning on someone verbally, though its core meaning remains a killing carried out without legal authority.
How LYNCH is used
Chiefly used in historical, legal and journalistic writing about mob violence.
- The mob threatened to lynch the accused man that night.
- Soldiers were posted there so no crowd could lynch the prisoner.
- The sheriff swore that no one would lynch a suspect on his watch.
- Newspapers of the era rarely tried to stop a crowd ready to lynch.
- The law made it a federal crime to lynch someone without trial.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LYNCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LYNCH
10 longer words begin with LYNCH.
Words with LYNCH inside
1 words contain LYNCH in the middle. Words that start with LYNCH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LYNCH
Common questions about LYNCH
- Is LYNCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LYNCH, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LYNCH worth?
- LYNCH is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LYNCH mean?
- To put a person to death, typically by hanging, through mob action and without a lawful trial.
- What letters can be added to LYNCH?
- No single letter can be added to LYNCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LYNCH:
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