UTE is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. UTE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UTE?
| 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: 49 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UTE is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 7 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UTE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UTE scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in UTE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 561.
What does UTE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Australian
A utility vehicle with an open back.
Ute is Australian and clipped from utility, and the vehicle was designed in Victoria in 1934 after a farmer's wife wrote to a manufacturer asking for something to drive to church and carry pigs in. The letter is still in the company archive.
How UTE is used
Countable: a ute, two utes. Australian.
- A ute carries what a car cannot and parks where a truck cannot.
- The word ute is clipped from utility.
- The first ute was built in 1934 after a customer wrote in.
- Two utes and a trailer for a job that needed one van.
- A ute in Australia is what a pickup is elsewhere.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UTE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UTE
15 longer words begin with UTE.
Words ending in UTE
Showing 24 of 113 words that end in UTE. Useful as a back hook: play UTE onto a word already on the board.
Words with UTE inside
Showing 24 of 741 words that contain UTE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with UTE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in UTE
Common questions about UTE
- Is UTE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UTE, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UTE worth?
- UTE is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UTE mean?
- A utility vehicle with an open back.
- What letters can be added to UTE?
- UTE takes 7 hooks: 6 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of UTE:
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