NAVEW is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. NAVEW 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept NAVEW?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NAVEW is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NAVEW
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
navewsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NAVEW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NAVEW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does NAVEW mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A wild, small-rooted turnip, grown mainly as fodder or for its oil-bearing seed.
The navew is a slender relative of the common turnip, valued historically less for the root, which stays thin, than for its seed, once pressed for lamp oil and animal feed. Older botanical books list the navew as a distinct variety rather than a mere wild turnip, and the name survives now mainly in that older literature.
How NAVEW is used
Botanical and historical; rare outside older reference books.
- The navew was once grown chiefly for its seed rather than its root.
- Farmers pressed navew seed for oil before cheaper sources appeared.
- A navew looks like a thin, pale turnip in the field.
- Older herbals treat the navew as a separate crop from the garden turnip.
- The navew survived longest as fodder on poorer soil.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NAVEW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NAVEW
1 longer words begin with NAVEW.
Shorter words from the letters in NAVEW
Common questions about NAVEW
- Is NAVEW valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and NAVEW is not in it.
- How many points is NAVEW worth?
- NAVEW is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NAVEW mean?
- A wild, small-rooted turnip, grown mainly as fodder or for its oil-bearing seed.
- What letters can be added to NAVEW?
- NAVEW takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NAVEW:
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