WOODCHUCK is a valid Scrabble word — 24 points
Yes. WOODCHUCK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 24 points in Scrabble and 26 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WOODCHUCK?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WOODCHUCK is to know. It scores 24 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 3.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WOODCHUCK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
woodchucksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WOODCHUCK scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in WOODCHUCK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so WOODCHUCK has to be built on the board across turns.
What does WOODCHUCK mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A heavy-bodied North American burrowing rodent with short legs and reddish-brown fur, a kind of marmot.
The woodchuck digs long burrows in fields and woodland edges, and farmers often count it a pest because it eats growing crops. It is best known from the tongue twister and from the weather folklore of early February.
How WOODCHUCK is used
Woodchuck is the usual everyday name in North America, where groundhog is the other common word for the same animal.
- A woodchuck had dug a burrow right under the garden shed.
- The farmer complained that a woodchuck was eating his young beans.
- We watched a woodchuck stand upright at the edge of the meadow.
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, goes the old tongue twister.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WOODCHUCK and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WOODCHUCK
1 longer words begin with WOODCHUCK.
Shorter words from the letters in WOODCHUCK
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Common questions about WOODCHUCK
- Is WOODCHUCK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WOODCHUCK, where it scores 26 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WOODCHUCK worth?
- WOODCHUCK is worth 24 points in Scrabble and 26 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WOODCHUCK mean?
- A heavy-bodied North American burrowing rodent with short legs and reddish-brown fur, a kind of marmot.
- What letters can be added to WOODCHUCK?
- WOODCHUCK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of WOODCHUCK:
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