RATCH is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. RATCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RATCH?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RATCH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RATCH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How RATCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RATCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does RATCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A bar or wheel with angled teeth engaged by a pawl so that it can move or be turned in one direction only; a ratchet.
A ratch is the toothed part of a ratchet mechanism, the bar or wheel whose sloped teeth let a spring-loaded pawl click past them in one direction while blocking movement the other way. This simple design is what allows a ratchet spanner to tighten a bolt with short back-and-forth movements instead of a full turn each time. The word is now used mostly as a shortened, informal alternative to ratchet, mainly in describing tools and mechanical fittings. Older dictionaries also record a separate, unrelated dialect sense of ratch, but the mechanical meaning is the one still in common technical use.
How RATCH is used
Technical; used mainly in descriptions of tools and mechanisms as a short form of ratchet.
- The mechanic explained how the ratch let the wrench turn the bolt in short movements.
- A worn ratch made the tool slip instead of catching properly.
- The clock mechanism used a small ratch to advance the hands one notch at a time.
- He oiled the ratch so the pawl would click smoothly again.
- The toy crane used a simple ratch to stop the line unwinding by itself.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RATCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RATCH
The 5 tiles of RATCH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with RATCH
7 longer words begin with RATCH.
Words ending in RATCH
4 words end in RATCH. Useful as a back hook: play RATCH onto a word already on the board.
Words with RATCH inside
Showing 24 of 53 words that contain RATCH somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RATCH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RATCH
Common questions about RATCH
- Is RATCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RATCH, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RATCH worth?
- RATCH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RATCH mean?
- A bar or wheel with angled teeth engaged by a pawl so that it can move or be turned in one direction only; a ratchet.
- What letters can be added to RATCH?
- RATCH takes 2 hooks: 2 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RATCH:
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