CHOW is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CHOW is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHOW?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHOW is to know. It scores 12 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHOW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHOW scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CHOW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 61,269.
What does CHOW mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
Food, in casual speech.
Chow came into English through Chinese pidgin in the nineteenth century and travelled with sailors and soldiers, which is why it still smells faintly of a mess hall. The same three letters name a thick-coated dog with a blue-black tongue, by a different route entirely, and chow down for eating in a hurry is later and American.
How CHOW is used
Uncountable: get some chow, the chow was cold. Also a verb in chow down.
- The chow was better than anyone expected.
- They queued for chow twice a day for three years.
- He went to chow down and came back in four minutes.
- Bad chow does more damage to morale than bad orders.
- The word chow arrived with the ships and stayed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHOW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHOW
Showing 24 of 30 words that begin with CHOW.
Words ending in CHOW
1 words end in CHOW. Useful as a back hook: play CHOW onto a word already on the board.
Words with CHOW inside
1 words contain CHOW in the middle. Words that start with CHOW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CHOW
Common questions about CHOW
- Is CHOW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHOW, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHOW worth?
- CHOW is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHOW mean?
- Food, in casual speech.
- What letters can be added to CHOW?
- CHOW takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CHOW:
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