EMMEW is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. EMMEW is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept EMMEW?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EMMEW is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EMMEW
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
emmewsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EMMEW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in EMMEW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 570,360.
What does EMMEW mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To confine or coop up, especially a hawk kept in a mew.
Emmew comes from the same root as mew, the small cage or coop where a hawk was kept while it moulted, and to emmew a bird meant shutting it inside that space. The word belongs to the vocabulary of old falconry manuals rather than everyday speech, and two other spellings, enmew and immew, carry exactly the same sense. Outside a hawking context the verb has almost no use, which is why later writers who borrowed emmew did so mainly for its image of confinement.
How EMMEW is used
Archaic; found in older falconry writing and occasionally borrowed by poets for its sense of confinement.
- The falconer would emmew a young hawk until it settled.
- To emmew a bird was simply to shut it inside its mew.
- The poem uses emmew for a soul shut away from the world.
- A hawk kept too long emmewed grew restless and thin.
- Old manuals on hawking use emmew where a modern writer would say cage.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EMMEW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with EMMEW
3 longer words begin with EMMEW.
Shorter words from the letters in EMMEW
Common questions about EMMEW
- Is EMMEW valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and EMMEW is not in it.
- How many points is EMMEW worth?
- EMMEW is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EMMEW mean?
- To confine or coop up, especially a hawk kept in a mew.
- What letters can be added to EMMEW?
- EMMEW takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of EMMEW:
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