WECHT is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. WECHT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WECHT?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WECHT is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WECHT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
wechtsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WECHT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WECHT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does WECHT mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsdialect
A traditional Scots unit or instrument of weight, or a flat wicker or hide-covered basket used for winnowing grain by hand.
A wecht names both the small stone or metal weight once used on a balance scale and the wide, shallow sieve-like basket that farm workers shook in the open air to separate grain from chaff. The word survives chiefly in descriptions of older farm work and in a Halloween divination game in which a wecht was hung in a doorway for young people to walk through blindfolded. Outside Scotland the object and the term are largely unfamiliar, since the tool a wecht names has mostly been replaced by mechanical threshing.
How WECHT is used
Scots dialect; found in accounts of traditional farming and folklore rather than in everyday modern speech.
- The old wecht hung on a nail in the barn long after the farm stopped threshing by hand.
- She shook the wecht from side to side so the wind carried off the lighter chaff.
- At Halloween the children took turns walking through the swinging wecht.
- A wecht of grain was weighed out before the sacks were tied.
- The museum labelled the wecht as a winnowing basket from the last century.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WECHT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WECHT
3 longer words begin with WECHT.
Shorter words from the letters in WECHT
Common questions about WECHT
- Is WECHT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WECHT, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WECHT worth?
- WECHT is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WECHT mean?
- A traditional Scots unit or instrument of weight, or a flat wicker or hide-covered basket used for winnowing grain by hand.
- What letters can be added to WECHT?
- WECHT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WECHT:
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