RUNCH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. RUNCH 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept RUNCH?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RUNCH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RUNCH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How RUNCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RUNCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does RUNCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanyregional
A wild radish or charlock, a weedy plant with yellow or white flowers that grows among crops.
Runch names a common farmland weed related to the mustard and radish family, recognised by its branching stems, four-petalled flowers and pod-like seed cases. Farmers have long treated runch as a nuisance because it spreads quickly through cultivated fields and competes with crops for light and soil. The word survives mainly in older agricultural writing and regional plant names rather than in modern botanical vocabulary, where charlock or wild radish is now more usual.
How RUNCH is used
Chiefly regional and historical; used in older farming and botanical writing rather than modern everyday speech.
- The field was overrun with runch before the harvest.
- Farmers pulled up runch by hand to protect the young crop.
- Yellow runch flowers dotted the edge of the barley field.
- Old farming manuals warn against letting runch seed spread.
- Runch and charlock are two names for the same troublesome weed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RUNCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RUNCH
The 5 tiles of RUNCH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with RUNCH
1 longer words begin with RUNCH.
Words ending in RUNCH
3 words end in RUNCH. Useful as a back hook: play RUNCH onto a word already on the board.
Words with RUNCH inside
Showing 24 of 41 words that contain RUNCH somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RUNCH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RUNCH
Common questions about RUNCH
- Is RUNCH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and RUNCH is not in it.
- How many points is RUNCH worth?
- RUNCH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RUNCH mean?
- A wild radish or charlock, a weedy plant with yellow or white flowers that grows among crops.
- What letters can be added to RUNCH?
- RUNCH takes 2 hooks: 2 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RUNCH:
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