EARWITNESS is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. EARWITNESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EARWITNESS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EARWITNESS is to know. It scores 13 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EARWITNESS
No single letter turns EARWITNESS into another word.
How EARWITNESS scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in EARWITNESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so EARWITNESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does EARWITNESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
A person who gives evidence about something they heard rather than saw.
Where an eyewitness reports what happened before their eyes, an earwitness relies on sound: a shout, a gunshot, a voice behind a door. Courts treat such accounts with care, since memory for voices is easily shaken.
How EARWITNESS is used
Mostly legal or journalistic, in contrast with "eyewitness".
- The earwitness swore she heard two voices arguing before the crash.
- No eyewitness came forward, but one earwitness described the sound.
- The detective questioned the earwitness who lived next door.
- An earwitness account of the speech was printed the next day.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EARWITNESS and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of EARWITNESS
The 10 tiles of EARWITNESS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with EARWITNESS
1 longer words begin with EARWITNESS.
Shorter words from the letters in EARWITNESS
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Common questions about EARWITNESS
- Is EARWITNESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EARWITNESS, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EARWITNESS worth?
- EARWITNESS is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EARWITNESS mean?
- A person who gives evidence about something they heard rather than saw.
- What letters can be added to EARWITNESS?
- No single letter can be added to EARWITNESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of EARWITNESS:
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