What BYCATCH Means
- noun: unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species“thousands of dolphins and porpoises and whales are killed as part of the by-catch each year”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BYCATCH is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 Y4 C3 A1 T1 C3 H4.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 69 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In BYCATCH
41 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (1)
5 letter words (4)
4 letter words (9)
3 letter words (17)
2 letter words (10)
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