NAUTCH is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. NAUTCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NAUTCH?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NAUTCH is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NAUTCH
No single letter turns NAUTCH into another word.
How NAUTCH scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in NAUTCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What does NAUTCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A traditional entertainment in India built around dance performed by professional women dancers.
The word comes from Hindi and was widely used by British writers in colonial India. A nautch was often staged at a court or a rich household, with musicians accompanying the dancers. Today it appears mostly in history books and in older travel writing, and it is often followed by the word girl.
How NAUTCH is used
Historical and now rare; found in writing about South Asia under British rule.
- The prince invited his guests to a nautch after dinner.
- Old travellers described every nautch they had attended.
- A nautch usually began once the musicians had tuned their instruments.
- The painting shows a nautch held beneath a canopy of silk.
- She read a long account of a nautch in a Victorian memoir.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NAUTCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NAUTCH
The 6 tiles of NAUTCH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with NAUTCH
1 longer words begin with NAUTCH.
Shorter words from the letters in NAUTCH
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Common questions about NAUTCH
- Is NAUTCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NAUTCH, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NAUTCH worth?
- NAUTCH is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NAUTCH mean?
- A traditional entertainment in India built around dance performed by professional women dancers.
- What letters can be added to NAUTCH?
- No single letter can be added to NAUTCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of NAUTCH:
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