QUOTH is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. QUOTH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUOTH?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUOTH is to know. It scores 17 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUOTH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUOTH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUOTH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does QUOTH mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To say, used only in the past tense and typically placed after the subject or speaker, as in quoth the raven.
Quoth survives from Old English cwethan, meaning to speak, and unlike ordinary verbs it never changes form: there is no quoths or quothing, only the single archaic quoth standing in for said. Poets and storytellers still reach for it when they want a line to sound old, as in the famous quoth the raven, nevermore.
How QUOTH is used
Archaic and literary; used today mainly for deliberate old-fashioned or humorous effect.
- Quoth the old sailor, the storm is far from over.
- "Never again," quoth she, and closed the door.
- The poem repeats quoth the raven at the end of each verse.
- He wrote quoth I to give the letter an antique flavour.
- Quoth the narrator, and so the tale begins.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUOTH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUOTH
2 longer words begin with QUOTH.
Shorter words from the letters in QUOTH
Common questions about QUOTH
- Is QUOTH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUOTH, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUOTH worth?
- QUOTH is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUOTH mean?
- To say, used only in the past tense and typically placed after the subject or speaker, as in quoth the raven.
- What letters can be added to QUOTH?
- QUOTH takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUOTH:
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