MAW is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. MAW is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAW?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAW is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MAW scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in MAW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What does MAW mean in Scrabble?
noun
The throat or stomach of a hungry animal.
Maw was once an ordinary word for a stomach and is now almost entirely figurative: what has a maw is a furnace, a machine or a system that swallows things. The shift happened because the word sounds like what it describes, and nothing polite is ever said to have one.
How MAW is used
Countable: a maw, two maws. Chiefly figurative now.
- Everything went into the maw of the furnace.
- The maw of the machine took the whole batch at once.
- A maw in older writing is simply a stomach.
- The city has a maw and the countryside feeds it.
- Two lorries a minute disappeared into that maw.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MAW
The 3 tiles of MAW in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with MAW
Showing 24 of 30 words that begin with MAW.
Words ending in MAW
1 words end in MAW. Useful as a back hook: play MAW onto a word already on the board.
Words with MAW inside
3 words contain MAW in the middle. Words that start with MAW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MAW
Common questions about MAW
- Is MAW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAW, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAW worth?
- MAW is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAW mean?
- The throat or stomach of a hungry animal.
- What letters can be added to MAW?
- MAW takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of MAW:
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