WHORT is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. WHORT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WHORT?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WHORT is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WHORT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
whortsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WHORT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WHORT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What stands out about WHORT
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does WHORT mean in Scrabble?
noun
regional
A whortleberry; a small, dark blue edible berry similar to a blueberry, or the low shrub on which it grows.
Whort is a shortened regional form of whortleberry, a name once common in parts of Britain for the wild bilberry that grows on heathland and moors. Foragers still use the name in some rural areas, though blueberry and bilberry are now far more familiar to most English speakers. The plant itself is a low, hardy shrub related to the blueberry, producing small dark berries in late summer. Because the shortened word whort is rarely seen outside dialect writing or older texts, most readers now recognize the fuller form more easily.
How WHORT is used
A regional and old-fashioned short form of whortleberry, now rarely used outside dialect speech and older writing.
- The old recipe calls for a handful of wild whort picked from the moor.
- Villagers once gathered whort every August on the hillside.
- The whort bush grows low among the heather on the moor.
- She remembered her grandmother baking pies with whort instead of blueberry.
- Few young foragers today even recognize the name whort.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WHORT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WHORT
The 5 tiles of WHORT in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with WHORT
5 longer words begin with WHORT.
Shorter words from the letters in WHORT
Common questions about WHORT
- Is WHORT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WHORT, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WHORT worth?
- WHORT is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WHORT mean?
- A whortleberry; a small, dark blue edible berry similar to a blueberry, or the low shrub on which it grows.
- What letters can be added to WHORT?
- WHORT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WHORT:
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