MEW is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. MEW 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 MEW?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MEW is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MEW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MEW scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in MEW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What does MEW mean in Scrabble?
noun
The cry of a cat, or of a gull.
Mew covers two quite different sounds and both are imitative: a cat and a gull do not much resemble each other, and English decided that they did. A separate mew is a cage for a hawk, and the plural of that gave London the street name where the stables stood.
How MEW is used
Countable and a verb. The unrelated noun means a hawk's cage.
- A thin mew came from under the shed.
- The gulls mew all morning over the harbour.
- The cat mews at the door and never comes in.
- A hawk was kept in a mew while it moulted.
- Two mews from the kitchen and the dog was up.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MEW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MEW
The 3 tiles of MEW in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with MEW
12 longer words begin with MEW.
Words ending in MEW
6 words end in MEW. Useful as a back hook: play MEW onto a word already on the board.
Words with MEW inside
Showing 24 of 65 words that contain MEW somewhere in the middle. Words that start with MEW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MEW
Common questions about MEW
- Is MEW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MEW, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MEW worth?
- MEW is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MEW mean?
- The cry of a cat, or of a gull.
- What letters can be added to MEW?
- MEW takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of MEW:
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