VAUCH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. VAUCH 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept VAUCH?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VAUCH is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VAUCH
No single letter turns VAUCH into another word.
How VAUCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VAUCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does VAUCH mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialect
To move very quickly, in northern English and Scots dialect speech.
Vauch belongs to a small set of dialect verbs that describe rapid, often clumsy movement rather than smooth running. Old word-lists group vauch with terms for scurrying or dashing off suddenly, and it survives today mainly as an entry noticed by word-game players rather than in everyday talk. Because the sense is narrow, a writer reaches for vauch only when a plainer word like hurry would lose the dialect flavour.
How VAUCH is used
Rare outside dialect glossaries and word-game references; a standard writer would choose hurry or dash instead.
- The old shepherd said the collie would vauch across the field the moment the gate opened.
- Local speech kept the verb vauch long after neighbouring villages dropped it.
- He seemed to vauch rather than walk, covering the lane in a few strides.
- Dialect dictionaries list vauch beside other words for sudden, hurried movement.
- She laughed at how the children would vauch home the second school ended.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VAUCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VAUCH
3 longer words begin with VAUCH.
Shorter words from the letters in VAUCH
Common questions about VAUCH
- Is VAUCH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and VAUCH is not in it.
- How many points is VAUCH worth?
- VAUCH is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VAUCH mean?
- To move very quickly, in northern English and Scots dialect speech.
- What letters can be added to VAUCH?
- No single letter can be added to VAUCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VAUCH:
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