PEW is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PEW 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 PEW?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PEW is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PEW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PEW scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in PEW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What does PEW mean in Scrabble?
noun
A long bench with a back, used for seating in a church.
Pews are younger than the buildings they stand in by a thousand years: for most of the middle ages a congregation stood, and fixed seating arrived with sermons long enough to need it. Renting a pew was real income for a parish until the nineteenth century, and the boxed ones were private property.
How PEW is used
Countable: a pew, two pews. Also informal — take a pew.
- The pew had a door and a nameplate on it.
- They sat in the same pew for forty years.
- A pew rent was a serious sum in a poor parish.
- Take a pew and I will find the papers.
- Two pews were removed to make room for a ramp.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PEW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PEW
14 longer words begin with PEW.
Words ending in PEW
1 words end in PEW. Useful as a back hook: play PEW onto a word already on the board.
Words with PEW inside
Showing 24 of 45 words that contain PEW somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PEW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PEW
Common questions about PEW
- Is PEW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PEW, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PEW worth?
- PEW is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PEW mean?
- A long bench with a back, used for seating in a church.
- What letters can be added to PEW?
- PEW takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of PEW:
Open PEW in the Word Finder