FROWST is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FROWST 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 FROWST?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FROWST is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FROWST
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FROWST scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FROWST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What stands out about FROWST
- FROWST gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does FROWST mean in Scrabble?
noun
Britishinformal
A warm, stale, stuffy atmosphere in a closed room.
Frowst is the heavy air of a room that is hot, shut up and full of old smoke or breath. It is mainly a British word and is rarely heard elsewhere, though it is handy for describing a place you want to escape from. As a verb it means to laze about in such an atmosphere, and the related adjective is frowsty.
How FROWST is used
British and somewhat dated; common in the adjective frowsty, rarer as frowst itself.
- He opened the window to clear the frowst of the old bar.
- The frowst of the waiting room made me drowsy.
- There was a thick frowst in the attic after the long summer.
- She could not stand the frowst of a room with no air.
- They sat in the frowst and played cards all afternoon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FROWST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FROWST
10 longer words begin with FROWST.
Shorter words from the letters in FROWST
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Common questions about FROWST
- Is FROWST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FROWST, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FROWST worth?
- FROWST is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FROWST mean?
- A warm, stale, stuffy atmosphere in a closed room.
- What letters can be added to FROWST?
- FROWST takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FROWST:
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