UTU is valid in Collins, not in North America — 3 points
It depends on the list you play by. UTU 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 3 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept UTU?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UTU is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UTU
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UTU scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in UTU, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 2 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What stands out about UTU
- UTU is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does UTU mean in Scrabble?
noun
New Zealand
Repayment or compensation, in Maori custom.
Utu is the principle that a balance has to be restored, and it works in both directions: a gift calls for a gift, an injury calls for an answer. English writing about New Zealand usually translates it as revenge, which catches half of it and drops the half about generosity entirely.
How UTU is used
Uncountable: a matter of utu. Used in English writing about New Zealand.
- The whole quarrel was a question of utu.
- Utu is not revenge, whatever the older histories say.
- A gift creates an obligation of utu as surely as an injury does.
- He explains utu in one paragraph and gets it half right.
- The word utu carries an idea English has no single term for.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UTU and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UTU
1 longer words begin with UTU.
Words ending in UTU
3 words end in UTU. Useful as a back hook: play UTU onto a word already on the board.
Words with UTU inside
Showing 24 of 129 words that contain UTU somewhere in the middle. Words that start with UTU are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in UTU
Common questions about UTU
- Is UTU valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and UTU is not in it.
- How many points is UTU worth?
- UTU is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UTU mean?
- Repayment or compensation, in Maori custom.
- What letters can be added to UTU?
- UTU takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of UTU:
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