SCUTCH is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. SCUTCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCUTCH?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCUTCH is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCUTCH
No single letter turns SCUTCH into another word.
How SCUTCH scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SCUTCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,209 thousand.
What stands out about SCUTCH
- SCUTCH gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SCUTCH mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To beat flax or similar plant fibre in order to separate the soft fibres from the woody stalk.
Scutching is one of the stages in turning a harvested plant such as flax into thread. After the stalks have been soaked and dried, they are beaten so the brittle woody part breaks away and leaves the usable fibre behind. Workers once did this by hand with a wooden blade, and the tool and the woody waste can also be called scutch. The word is mostly met in the history of textiles.
How SCUTCH is used
Technical term from flax and hemp processing; rare outside that trade.
- The workers would scutch the dried stalks until only fibre remained.
- In the old mill they used to scutch flax by hand each autumn.
- You need a flat wooden blade to scutch the stems properly.
- The museum shows how farm families would scutch their own crop.
- To scutch hemp took patience and strong arms.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCUTCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SCUTCH
9 longer words begin with SCUTCH.
Shorter words from the letters in SCUTCH
Common questions about SCUTCH
- Is SCUTCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCUTCH, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCUTCH worth?
- SCUTCH is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCUTCH mean?
- To beat flax or similar plant fibre in order to separate the soft fibres from the woody stalk.
- What letters can be added to SCUTCH?
- No single letter can be added to SCUTCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SCUTCH:
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