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RETCH

5 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What RETCH Means

  1. verb: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth“After drinking too much, the students vomited”
  2. verb: make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
  3. noun: an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting“a bad case of the heaves”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

RETCH is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 T1 C3 H4.

Anagrams of RETCH (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In RETCH

23 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.

4 letter words (6)

3 letter words (10)

2 letter words (7)

Longer Words Containing RETCH

RETCH appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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