RAW is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RAW is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RAW?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RAW is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RAW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RAW scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in RAW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,497.
What does RAW mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Not cooked; in its natural state.
Raw covers food, materials, weather, emotion and a wound, and the link is that nothing has yet been done to any of them. A raw recruit and a raw morning use the same idea in two directions, and both are older than the sense about food.
How RAW is used
Before and after the noun. Also a noun in in the raw.
- The fish is served raw and the rice is not.
- A raw morning in February with an east wind.
- He was a raw recruit and looked it.
- Raw materials cost more than the finished article used to.
- The wound was raw and healing badly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RAW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RAW
The 3 tiles of RAW in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with RAW
Showing 24 of 27 words that begin with RAW.
Words ending in RAW
23 words end in RAW. Useful as a back hook: play RAW onto a word already on the board.
Words with RAW inside
Showing 24 of 317 words that contain RAW somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RAW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RAW
Common questions about RAW
- Is RAW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RAW, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RAW worth?
- RAW is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RAW mean?
- Not cooked; in its natural state.
- What letters can be added to RAW?
- RAW takes 5 hooks: 3 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of RAW:
Open RAW in the Word Finder