SCATH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. SCATH 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 SCATH?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCATH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCATH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCATH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SCATH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What stands out about SCATH
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SCATH mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To harm, injure, or damage.
Scath is an old verb meaning to injure or do harm, once common in Middle English and still found in Spenser and other early poets, sometimes spelled scathe, scaith or skaith. Its descendant scathe survives today mostly in the phrase unscathed, meaning untouched by harm, which keeps the old sense alive long after the plain verb scath dropped out of everyday use. Modern readers meet scath almost exclusively in older literature or word lists rather than in ordinary conversation.
How SCATH is used
Archaic; found in older literature such as Spenser rather than in current English.
- The knight vowed that no enemy would scath his lands.
- Nothing could scath the old castle's thick stone walls.
- The poem warns that pride will scath even the strongest.
- He swore never to scath a defenceless traveller.
- Old ballads use scath where a modern writer would say harm.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCATH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SCATH
The 5 tiles of SCATH in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SCATH
10 longer words begin with SCATH.
Words with SCATH inside
1 words contain SCATH in the middle. Words that start with SCATH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SCATH
Common questions about SCATH
- Is SCATH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SCATH is not in it.
- How many points is SCATH worth?
- SCATH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCATH mean?
- To harm, injure, or damage.
- What letters can be added to SCATH?
- SCATH takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SCATH:
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