HEWGH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 15 points
It depends on the list you play by. HEWGH 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 15 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept HEWGH?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HEWGH is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HEWGH
No single letter turns HEWGH into another word.
How HEWGH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HEWGH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 2 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What stands out about HEWGH
- HEWGH begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HEWGH mean in Scrabble?
interjection
archaicliterary
An exclamation imitating the whistling sound of an arrow in flight.
Hewgh appears in old literary English, most notably in Shakespeare, as a sound word rather than a word with an ordinary meaning. It represents the sharp whistling noise an arrow makes as it flies through the air. Because it imitates a sound rather than naming a thing or action, hewgh functions purely as an interjection in old texts.
How HEWGH is used
Archaic and literary, essentially confined to historical texts rather than modern speech.
- The old play uses hewgh to mark the sound of a loosed arrow.
- Hewgh, cried the archer as the shaft flew past.
- Scholars note that hewgh appears rarely outside Shakespeare's works.
- The narrator wrote hewgh to capture the whistle of the arrow.
- In performance, the actor shouted hewgh at the moment of the shot.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HEWGH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HEWGH
Common questions about HEWGH
- Is HEWGH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and HEWGH is not in it.
- How many points is HEWGH worth?
- HEWGH is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HEWGH mean?
- An exclamation imitating the whistling sound of an arrow in flight.
- What letters can be added to HEWGH?
- No single letter can be added to HEWGH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HEWGH:
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