MEITH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. MEITH 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 MEITH?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MEITH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MEITH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
meithsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MEITH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MEITH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does MEITH mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A landmark or boundary mark used to guide travellers across open or featureless ground.
Meith belongs to Scots dialect and named the cairn, standing stone, or other fixed point that walkers and drovers used to find their way over moor or hill where no path was visible. The same word could mark a boundary between two farms or parishes, so a meith served both as a guide and as a legal marker of where one holding ended and another began. Standard English has no single word that carries the same double sense of wayfinding mark and boundary mark together, which is part of why meith survived in local use long after signposts took over its first job.
How MEITH is used
Chiefly Scots; found in older accounts of hill walking and land boundaries.
- The shepherd named the standing stone as the meith for that stretch of moor.
- A meith on the hillside marked where one farm ended and the next began.
- Without a meith to steer by, the travellers lost the path in the mist.
- Old charters describe the burn as the meith between two parishes.
- The word meith is recorded in Scots long before any map covered that ground.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MEITH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MEITH
The 5 tiles of MEITH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with MEITH
1 longer words begin with MEITH.
Shorter words from the letters in MEITH
Common questions about MEITH
- Is MEITH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MEITH is not in it.
- How many points is MEITH worth?
- MEITH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MEITH mean?
- A landmark or boundary mark used to guide travellers across open or featureless ground.
- What letters can be added to MEITH?
- MEITH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MEITH:
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