TOCSIN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TOCSIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TOCSIN?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TOCSIN is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TOCSIN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tocsinsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TOCSIN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in TOCSIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does TOCSIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A bell rung as an alarm, or any signal that warns of danger.
Long ago a town would ring its great bell in a steady, urgent way to call people to arms or warn them of fire. The word came into English from French, where the bell itself was the tocsin. Today it turns up mostly in figurative writing, when a speaker says a crisis has sounded a tocsin for the public.
How TOCSIN is used
Literary; used chiefly in figurative phrases about warnings and alarms.
- The tocsin rang from the church tower as the flames spread.
- The report was a tocsin for anyone who relied on the old bridge.
- In the novel, the tocsin wakes the whole village at midnight.
- Rising prices were the tocsin of a coming crisis.
- He heard the distant tocsin and ran toward the square.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TOCSIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TOCSIN
The 6 tiles of TOCSIN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with TOCSIN
1 longer words begin with TOCSIN.
Shorter words from the letters in TOCSIN
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Common questions about TOCSIN
- Is TOCSIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TOCSIN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TOCSIN worth?
- TOCSIN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TOCSIN mean?
- A bell rung as an alarm, or any signal that warns of danger.
- What letters can be added to TOCSIN?
- TOCSIN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TOCSIN:
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