What HITCHES Means
HITCHES is a form of HITCH, which means:
- noun: a period of time spent in military service
- noun: the state of inactivity following an interruption“the negotiations were in arrest”
- verb: to hook or entangle“One foot caught in the stirrup”
- verb: walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury“The old woman hobbles down to the store every day”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HITCHES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 I1 T1 C3 H4 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In HITCHES
110 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 (8)
5 letter words (20)
CESTICHESTCHETHCHITSCITESETHICHECHTHEISTHETHSHITCHHITHEICHESSHCHISICHTSIETHSITHESTICHTECHSTHEICTICES
4 letter words (37)
CHISCHITCISTCITECITSECHTEISHETCHETHSETICHECHHEHSHESTHETHHETSHIESHISHHISTHITSICESICHSITCHSECHSECTSHETSICESICHSITESITHSTIETECHTECSTHISTICETICHTICSTIES
3 letter words (32)
2 letter words (13)
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