SHUTE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SHUTE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHUTE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHUTE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHUTE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHUTE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHUTE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does SHUTE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A sloping channel or passage down which objects slide or are directed, an older variant spelling of chute; also used as a verb meaning to send something down such a passage.
Loggers once built a long wooden shute to send timber sliding down a hillside toward a river, letting gravity do work that would otherwise require carts and draft animals. Mines and quarries used a similar shute to move loose coal or ore down to a waiting cart or ship's hold, and the same basic design later carried water, grain and countless other bulk materials. Modern English has largely settled on the spelling chute for this channel, so shute now looks old-fashioned and turns up mainly in older technical writing and historical accounts of logging, mining and shipping. A reader who meets shute today should treat it as exactly the same word as chute, differing only in an older way of writing it down.
How SHUTE is used
An older, now uncommon variant spelling of chute, met mainly in older technical and historical writing about logging, mining or shipping.
- Logs slid down the wooden shute into the river below.
- Workers loaded coal directly from the shute into the waiting cart.
- The old mill still had its original grain shute intact.
- They watched the timber shute down the steep hillside track.
- A rusted iron shute once carried ore to the dockside.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHUTE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SHUTE
4 longer words begin with SHUTE.
Shorter words from the letters in SHUTE
Common questions about SHUTE
- Is SHUTE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHUTE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHUTE worth?
- SHUTE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHUTE mean?
- A sloping channel or passage down which objects slide or are directed, an older variant spelling of chute; also used as a verb meaning to send something down such a passage.
- What letters can be added to SHUTE?
- SHUTE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHUTE:
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