PEWIT is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PEWIT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PEWIT?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PEWIT is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PEWIT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pewitsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PEWIT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PEWIT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does PEWIT mean in Scrabble?
noun
Britishdialect
A European bird, the lapwing, named for the sound of its call; also known as a peewit.
Pewit is an older name for the lapwing, a plover with broad, rounded wings and a distinctive crest, found across fields and wetlands in Europe. Like pewee, the name is imitative, copying the bird's own harsh, wailing cry rather than describing its markings. Farmers and country writers once used pewit as the everyday name for this bird, while lapwing became the more common term in modern usage. The two names refer to exactly the same bird and are still used interchangeably in older texts and regional speech.
How PEWIT is used
Chiefly British and regional; found more often in older writing and dialect than in current everyday speech.
- A pewit wheeled and called over the ploughed field.
- The old shepherd still called the lapwing a pewit.
- They heard the pewit calling long before they saw the bird.
- A pair of pewit nested close to the marsh each spring.
- Older nature books use pewit where a modern one would say lapwing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PEWIT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PEWIT
1 longer words begin with PEWIT.
Shorter words from the letters in PEWIT
Common questions about PEWIT
- Is PEWIT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PEWIT, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PEWIT worth?
- PEWIT is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PEWIT mean?
- A European bird, the lapwing, named for the sound of its call; also known as a peewit.
- What letters can be added to PEWIT?
- PEWIT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PEWIT:
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