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Is twitch a Scrabble word?

Yes, twitch is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 14 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of twitch?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.countableinformaluncountable

2. (farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.Examples: "THE TWITCH is a short stick of strong ash, about the size of a mopstick, with a hole pierced near the end, through which is passed a piece of strong but small cord, and tied in a loop large enough to admit the open hand freely."Synonyms: barnaclecountableuncountable

3. (physiology) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.countableuncountable

4. (mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.countableuncountable

5. (birdwatching) A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.countableuncountable

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.Examples: "His fingers were nervously twitching."intransitive

2. (transitive) To cause to twitch; spasm.Examples: "Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses..."transitive

3. (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.Examples: "to twitch somebody's sleeve for attention"; "Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear."transitive

4. (obsolete) To exert oneself.obsolete

5. (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.Examples: ""The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe.""; ""But the key revelation from twitching that wonderful Iceland Gull on 10 March 1974 wasn't its eroticism. It was the sheer innocence of it.""; ""I hadn't seen John since I went to Adelaide to (unsuccessfully) twitch the '87 Northern Shoveler, when I was a skinny, eighteen-year-old kid. ""transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "twitch"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "twitch"?

Scrabble
14 points
T1
W4
I1
T1
C3
H4
Words With Friends
14 points
T1
W4
I1
T1
C4
H3

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