POW is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. POW 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 POW?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POW is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POW scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in POW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,053.
What does POW mean in Scrabble?
interjection
A sound of a blow or an explosion, as written.
Pow belongs to the comic strip, where a punch had to be shown without any sound at all, and it left the page in the 1960s along with the rest of that visual vocabulary. In Scots the same three letters mean a head, which is a separate word and a much older one.
How POW is used
Stands alone. Chiefly written.
- The panel is a fist and the word pow and nothing else.
- Pow, and the whole wall came down.
- The word pow escaped from comics into speech.
- In Scots a pow is a head and not a noise.
- Two pows and a crash filled the last page.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POW
The 3 tiles of POW in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with POW
Showing 24 of 88 words that begin with POW.
Words ending in POW
1 words end in POW. Useful as a back hook: play POW onto a word already on the board.
Words with POW inside
Showing 24 of 83 words that contain POW somewhere in the middle. Words that start with POW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in POW
Common questions about POW
- Is POW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POW, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POW worth?
- POW is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POW mean?
- A sound of a blow or an explosion, as written.
- What letters can be added to POW?
- POW takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of POW:
Open POW in the Word Finder