WERSH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. WERSH 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 11 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept WERSH?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WERSH is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WERSH
No single letter turns WERSH into another word.
How WERSH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WERSH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does WERSH mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scots
Lacking flavour; tasteless or insipid.
Wersh describes food or drink that has no real taste at all, the way boiled water tastes of nothing. It survives mainly in Scotland and northern England, where a cook might call a soup wersh if it needed more salt. The word is sometimes written wairsh, but wersh is the commoner form.
How WERSH is used
Used chiefly of food and drink; a Scots word without a single common English equivalent that carries the same everyday tone.
- The porridge was wersh without a pinch of salt.
- She complained that the broth tasted wersh and watery.
- A wersh cup of tea is worse than none at all.
- His grandmother always called weak soup wersh.
- The bread had gone stale and wersh overnight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WERSH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WERSH
The 5 tiles of WERSH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WERSH
2 longer words begin with WERSH.
Words with WERSH inside
4 words contain WERSH in the middle. Words that start with WERSH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WERSH
Common questions about WERSH
- Is WERSH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WERSH, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WERSH worth?
- WERSH is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WERSH mean?
- Lacking flavour; tasteless or insipid.
- What letters can be added to WERSH?
- No single letter can be added to WERSH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WERSH:
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