HOW is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. HOW is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOW?
| 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: 61 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOW is to know. It scores 9 from 3 tiles, takes 9 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HOW scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HOW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,053.
What does HOW mean in Scrabble?
adverb
In what way or manner.
How asks about method where why asks about cause, and between them the two cover most of what anybody wants to know. It also opens exclamations — how kind, how awful — and in that use it is not asking anything whatever.
How HOW is used
Adverb and conjunction. Also opens exclamations.
- Nobody explained how it was supposed to work.
- How kind of you to say so.
- How and why are different questions with different answers.
- She showed him how and he still got it wrong.
- The report says what happened and not how.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HOW
The 3 tiles of HOW in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HOW
Showing 24 of 53 words that begin with HOW.
Words ending in HOW
Showing 24 of 28 words that end in HOW. Useful as a back hook: play HOW onto a word already on the board.
Words with HOW inside
Showing 24 of 198 words that contain HOW somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HOW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HOW
Common questions about HOW
- Is HOW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOW, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOW worth?
- HOW is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOW mean?
- In what way or manner.
- What letters can be added to HOW?
- HOW takes 9 hooks: 4 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HOW:
Open HOW in the Word Finder