PILCH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. PILCH 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept PILCH?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PILCH is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PILCH
No single letter turns PILCH into another word.
How PILCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PILCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does PILCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicBritish
An outer garment of leather or flannel, once worn over other clothing or over an armed man's body for warmth or padding.
A pilch was cut loosely and worn as a layer above the main garment, sometimes lined with fur for cold weather. The same name was later given to a soft waterproof covering placed over a baby's cloth nappy to stop it soaking through to other clothes. Both senses share the idea of an outer protective layer rather than the garment worn next to the skin.
How PILCH is used
Now met mainly in older texts and in accounts of traditional infant care.
- The old inventory listed a pilch of lambskin among the winter clothes.
- She fastened the pilch over the baby's nappy before the walk.
- A pilch of this kind kept the rain from soaking through to the shirt beneath.
- Museum records describe the pilch as a common item in a soldier's kit.
- The nurse still called the waterproof cover a pilch, as her grandmother had.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PILCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PILCH
5 longer words begin with PILCH.
Shorter words from the letters in PILCH
Common questions about PILCH
- Is PILCH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PILCH is not in it.
- How many points is PILCH worth?
- PILCH is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PILCH mean?
- An outer garment of leather or flannel, once worn over other clothing or over an armed man's body for warmth or padding.
- What letters can be added to PILCH?
- No single letter can be added to PILCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PILCH:
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