ROTCH is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. ROTCH 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 ROTCH?
| 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 ROTCH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROTCH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ROTCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ROTCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does ROTCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectregional
A small diving seabird of the North Atlantic and Arctic, more commonly called the little auk.
Rotch, also spelled rotche, is an old regional name fishermen and sailors used for the little auk, a small black-and-white seabird that breeds in huge colonies on Arctic cliffs and winters far out at sea. The name turns up mainly in older natural history writing and dialect glossaries rather than in modern birdwatching guides, where little auk is now the standard term.
How ROTCH is used
Rare and mostly historical; little auk is the everyday name used today.
- Fishermen once called the tiny auk bobbing offshore a rotch.
- The old naturalist's notebook lists the rotch among Arctic seabirds.
- A flock of rotch dived repeatedly for small fish near the ice edge.
- Sailors in the northern seas knew the rotch by its stubby black-and-white shape.
- The dialect word rotch has largely been replaced by little auk in modern guides.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROTCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ROTCH
The 5 tiles of ROTCH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ROTCH
4 longer words begin with ROTCH.
Words ending in ROTCH
2 words end in ROTCH. Useful as a back hook: play ROTCH onto a word already on the board.
Words with ROTCH inside
13 words contain ROTCH in the middle. Words that start with ROTCH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ROTCH
Common questions about ROTCH
- Is ROTCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROTCH, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROTCH worth?
- ROTCH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROTCH mean?
- A small diving seabird of the North Atlantic and Arctic, more commonly called the little auk.
- What letters can be added to ROTCH?
- ROTCH takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ROTCH:
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