TOC is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. TOC 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 5 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept TOC?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TOC is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TOC
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TOC scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in TOC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does TOC mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
The old army signalling word for the letter T, remembered today mainly through Toc H, the First World War servicemen's club named after it.
Toc comes from army signalling before NATO fixed a single alphabet for everyone: T was toc, A was ack, M was emma, and the words were chosen to survive a bad telephone line rather than to sound elegant. The traces are still visible in ack-ack for anti-aircraft fire.
How TOC is used
Countable in word lists; in service use it stood alone as the letter.
- The signaller read it back letter by letter, ending with toc.
- Old hands still said toc where the manual now says tango.
- Every message closed with the same toc and a time.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TOC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see TOC
- Toc H, the club founded for soldiers at Talbot House in 1915, takes its name from the signaller's toc for the letter T.
Anagrams of TOC
The 3 tiles of TOC in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with TOC
Showing 24 of 32 words that begin with TOC.
Words ending in TOC
5 words end in TOC. Useful as a back hook: play TOC onto a word already on the board.
Words with TOC inside
Showing 24 of 573 words that contain TOC somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TOC are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TOC
Common questions about TOC
- Is TOC valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TOC is not in it.
- How many points is TOC worth?
- TOC is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TOC mean?
- The old army signalling word for the letter T, remembered today mainly through Toc H, the First World War servicemen's club named after it.
- What letters can be added to TOC?
- TOC takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of TOC:
Open TOC in the Word Finder