What RETCHES Means
RETCHES is a form of RETCH, which means:
- verb: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth“After drinking too much, the students vomited”
- verb: make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- 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
RETCHES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 T1 C3 H4 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of RETCHES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In RETCHES
126 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 (14)
5 letter words (37)
4 letter words (39)
3 letter words (25)
2 letter words (11)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.