RANCH is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. RANCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RANCH?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RANCH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RANCH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How RANCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RANCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does RANCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A large farm, especially in the western United States or Canada, used mainly for raising cattle, horses or sheep on open grazing land.
A ranch centres on raising livestock across wide stretches of open or fenced land, rather than growing crops as its main activity, and the people who work one are called ranchers or hands. The word came into English from Mexican Spanish rancho and spread northward with cattle raising across the American West, where huge working ranches once covered thousands of acres. Beyond livestock, ranch has extended to other large agricultural operations such as a dude ranch, which offers horseback riding holidays to visitors. The word also names a low, single-storey house style, the ranch house, which took its look loosely from ranch buildings.
How RANCH is used
Common in North American English, both for working cattle operations and for related uses such as dude ranch or ranch house.
- The family had run a cattle ranch in Texas for three generations.
- Tourists could spend a week riding horses at the dude ranch.
- He grew up on a sheep ranch in rural Montana.
- The new houses in the suburb were all built in ranch style.
- She learned to rope cattle helping out on her uncle's ranch.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RANCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RANCH
24 longer words begin with RANCH.
Words ending in RANCH
20 words end in RANCH. Useful as a back hook: play RANCH onto a word already on the board.
Words with RANCH inside
Showing 24 of 106 words that contain RANCH somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RANCH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RANCH
Common questions about RANCH
- Is RANCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RANCH, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RANCH worth?
- RANCH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RANCH mean?
- A large farm, especially in the western United States or Canada, used mainly for raising cattle, horses or sheep on open grazing land.
- What letters can be added to RANCH?
- RANCH takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RANCH:
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