COW is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. COW is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COW?
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COW is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COW scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in COW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,053.
What does COW mean in Scrabble?
noun
A fully grown female of cattle.
Cow is a precise word that is almost never used precisely: it names the female that has calved, while the species as a whole is cattle and a young one is a heifer. Farmers keep those distinctions and everybody else uses one word for the lot.
How COW is used
Countable: a cow, two cows. Also a verb meaning to intimidate.
- The cow calved in the night and nobody noticed.
- A cow that size eats her own weight in a fortnight.
- Strictly a cow has calved and a heifer has not.
- He was cowed by the whole business and said nothing.
- Two cows got out and were three fields away by morning.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COW
Showing 24 of 148 words that begin with COW.
Words ending in COW
8 words end in COW. Useful as a back hook: play COW onto a word already on the board.
Words with COW inside
Showing 24 of 58 words that contain COW somewhere in the middle. Words that start with COW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in COW
Common questions about COW
- Is COW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COW, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COW worth?
- COW is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COW mean?
- A fully grown female of cattle.
- What letters can be added to COW?
- COW takes 6 hooks: 1 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of COW:
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