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Is urchin a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word urchin is a Scrabble US word. The word urchin is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

U1R1C3H4I1N1

Is urchin a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word urchin is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

U1R1C3H4I1N1

Is urchin a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word urchin is a Words With Friends word. The word urchin is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

U2R1C4H3I1N2

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6-letter words (1 found)

URCHIN,

5-letter words (5 found)

CHIRU,CHURN,INCUR,RUNCH,RUNIC,

4-letter words (9 found)

CHIN,CHUR,CURN,HUIC,INCH,RICH,RUIN,UNCI,URIC,

3-letter words (14 found)

CHI,CRU,CUR,HIC,HIN,HUI,HUN,ICH,NUR,RIN,RUC,RUN,UNI,URN,

2-letter words (7 found)

CH,HI,IN,NU,UH,UN,UR,

You can make 36 words from urchin according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of urchin

urchin

Alternative forms

  • urchon (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Old Northern French irechon, from Vulgar Latin *ērīciōnem, from Latin ericius. Compare modern French hérisson, whence the English doublet herisson.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɜːtʃɪn/, /ˈɜːtʃən/
  • (General American) enPR: ûrʹchĭn, IPA(key): /ˈɝt͡ʃɪn/, /ˈɝt͡ʃən/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃɪn
  • Hyphenation: ur‧chin, urchin

Noun

urchin (plural urchins)

  1. A mischievous child.
  2. A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
  3. A sea urchin.
  4. One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
  5. (historical) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
  6. (obsolete) A hedgehog.
  7. (obsolete) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.

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Anagrams

  • chunri, unrich

Source: wiktionary.org