FOODWAYS is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. FOODWAYS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FOODWAYS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FOODWAYS is to know. It scores 18 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FOODWAYS
No single letter turns FOODWAYS into another word.
How FOODWAYS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in FOODWAYS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so FOODWAYS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does FOODWAYS mean in Scrabble?
noun
The customs and habits of a group connected with growing, preparing and eating food.
Foodways is the study-minded word for how a community eats: which dishes, at what times and with which rituals. Historians and anthropologists use it to compare cultures. It is nearly always plural in form.
How FOODWAYS is used
Foodways appears in academic and cultural writing about eating traditions.
- The course examines the foodways of the American South.
- Migration changed the foodways of the whole region.
- Her research focuses on holiday foodways.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FOODWAYS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FOODWAYS
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Common questions about FOODWAYS
- Is FOODWAYS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FOODWAYS, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FOODWAYS worth?
- FOODWAYS is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FOODWAYS mean?
- The customs and habits of a group connected with growing, preparing and eating food.
- What letters can be added to FOODWAYS?
- No single letter can be added to FOODWAYS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of FOODWAYS:
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