TUCKAHOE is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. TUCKAHOE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TUCKAHOE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TUCKAHOE is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TUCKAHOE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tuckahoesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TUCKAHOE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in TUCKAHOE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so TUCKAHOE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about TUCKAHOE
- All 8 letters of TUCKAHOE are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TUCKAHOE mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
An edible underground growth, or a plant with an edible root, once eaten by Native Americans of eastern North America.
The name tuckahoe has also been applied to several unrelated plants and to a fungus-like mass found underground. Which one is meant usually depends on the region of the book.
How TUCKAHOE is used
Used in botany, regional history and old American cookery.
- Settlers learned from local people how to prepare tuckahoe.
- The tuckahoe was dug from marshy ground in early spring.
- He read about tuckahoe in a nineteenth-century field guide.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TUCKAHOE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TUCKAHOE
1 longer words begin with TUCKAHOE.
Shorter words from the letters in TUCKAHOE
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Common questions about TUCKAHOE
- Is TUCKAHOE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TUCKAHOE, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TUCKAHOE worth?
- TUCKAHOE is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TUCKAHOE mean?
- An edible underground growth, or a plant with an edible root, once eaten by Native Americans of eastern North America.
- What letters can be added to TUCKAHOE?
- TUCKAHOE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of TUCKAHOE:
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