TITE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. TITE 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 4 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept TITE?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TITE is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 8.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TITE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
titerChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How TITE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in TITE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,421.
What does TITE mean in Scrabble?
adverb
obsolete
An obsolete way of saying promptly or immediately.
Tite turns up in older English texts as a plain adverb of speed, standing in for words like directly or at once. Writers used it to tell someone to act tite, without delay, before the sense faded from everyday speech and immediately took over.
How TITE is used
Found in historical and dialect writing rather than modern English.
- Come tite, before the tide turns.
- She answered tite, without a moment's pause.
- The old letter told him to reply tite.
- He rose tite when the bell rang.
- Send word tite if the ship arrives.
- The steward was told to fetch the wine tite.
- Do it tite, the master will not wait.
- They packed the cart tite and left before dawn.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TITE and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see TITE
- The word tite is also spelled tyte in some older texts, with the same meaning of promptly.
- Tite is related to the adjective tight, both tracing back to an old Germanic root for drawn or firm.
Words starting with TITE
3 longer words begin with TITE.
Words ending in TITE
Showing 24 of 67 words that end in TITE. Useful as a back hook: play TITE onto a word already on the board.
Words with TITE inside
Showing 24 of 80 words that contain TITE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TITE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TITE
Common questions about TITE
- Is TITE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TITE is not in it.
- How many points is TITE worth?
- TITE is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TITE mean?
- An obsolete way of saying promptly or immediately.
- What letters can be added to TITE?
- TITE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of TITE:
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