RIT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 3 points
It depends on the list you play by. RIT 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 3 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept RIT?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RIT is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 9 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RIT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RIT scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in RIT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 499.
What does RIT mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scots
To scratch or score a surface, making a shallow cut.
Rit belongs to Scots dialect vocabulary for marking or damaging a surface without cutting all the way through it, close in meaning to score or scratch. It appears in older Scots writing and glossaries alongside the spelling ritt, describing everything from a knife mark on wood to a scrape on skin.
How RIT is used
Used in Scots dialect speech and writing rather than standard English.
- He let the knife rit the bark before peeling it away.
- A stone had rit a long line across the tabletop.
- She watched the nail rit the paint as it fell.
- The thorn managed to rit his arm through his sleeve.
- Careful, that blade will rit the glass if you press too hard.
- The children used chalk to rit their initials into the wall.
- A rusty hinge can rit the doorframe every time it swings.
- The cat's claws rit the leather chair as it stretched.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RIT and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see RIT
- The spelling ritt appears as a variant in older Scots glossaries.
- Rit sits within a wider group of Scots words for scoring or notching a surface.
Words starting with RIT
Showing 24 of 61 words that begin with RIT.
Words ending in RIT
Showing 24 of 36 words that end in RIT. Useful as a back hook: play RIT onto a word already on the board.
Words with RIT inside
Showing 24 of 1749 words that contain RIT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RIT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RIT
Common questions about RIT
- Is RIT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and RIT is not in it.
- How many points is RIT worth?
- RIT is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RIT mean?
- To scratch or score a surface, making a shallow cut.
- What letters can be added to RIT?
- RIT takes 9 hooks: 5 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of RIT:
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