TORCH is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. TORCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TORCH?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TORCH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TORCH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
torchyChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How TORCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TORCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does TORCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
A small portable device that produces light, either a battery-powered handheld lamp (the everyday British term for a flashlight) or a stick with a flaming end carried as a source of fire and light.
In British English torch usually means a small battery-powered lamp carried in the hand, the everyday object called a flashlight in American English. The older sense of torch is a stick or rod with one end wrapped in burning material, historically carried to light the way at night or held aloft in a procession, and this sense survives in symbolic uses such as the Olympic torch. Torch is also used informally as a verb, meaning to set something alight deliberately, as when a building is torched in a crime report. Across all these uses, torch keeps the idea of a portable, hand-carried source of light or fire.
How TORCH is used
The battery-powered sense is everyday British usage; the flaming-stick sense is common worldwide in historical, ceremonial and figurative writing.
- She fumbled in the dark for a torch to find her way to the fuse box.
- Runners carried the Olympic torch through the streets of the city.
- The guide lit a torch to lead the group through the cave.
- Investigators believed the abandoned warehouse had been torched deliberately.
- He kept a spare torch in the car in case of a breakdown.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TORCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TORCH
The 5 tiles of TORCH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with TORCH
Showing 24 of 25 words that begin with TORCH.
Words ending in TORCH
1 words end in TORCH. Useful as a back hook: play TORCH onto a word already on the board.
Words with TORCH inside
9 words contain TORCH in the middle. Words that start with TORCH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TORCH
Common questions about TORCH
- Is TORCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TORCH, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TORCH worth?
- TORCH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TORCH mean?
- A small portable device that produces light, either a battery-powered handheld lamp (the everyday British term for a flashlight) or a stick with a flaming end carried as a source of fire and light.
- What letters can be added to TORCH?
- TORCH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TORCH:
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