SCRAW is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. SCRAW 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SCRAW?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCRAW is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCRAW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCRAW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SCRAW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does SCRAW mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalregionalIrish
A thin strip of sod or turf, especially one cut from a peat bog or field.
A scraw is a thin slab of turf, cut with the grass and roots still attached, traditionally lifted from a bog or field for use as roofing, fencing or fuel. Irish and Scottish country building once used scraws laid over roof timbers as a base for thatch, since the tangled roots held the layer together. The word is now mostly historical, remembered in accounts of traditional cottage building rather than in modern speech.
How SCRAW is used
Historical and regional; chiefly Irish, describing turf cut for roofing, fencing or fuel.
- Workers cut scraws from the bog to roof the cottage.
- A layer of scraw supported the thatch above the rafters.
- The old wall was topped with a scraw to keep it from crumbling.
- Cutting scraw was heavy, muddy work in early spring.
- Each scraw was laid grass-side down before the thatch went on.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCRAW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SCRAW
The 5 tiles of SCRAW in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SCRAW
Showing 24 of 30 words that begin with SCRAW.
Words with SCRAW inside
4 words contain SCRAW in the middle. Words that start with SCRAW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SCRAW
Common questions about SCRAW
- Is SCRAW valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SCRAW is not in it.
- How many points is SCRAW worth?
- SCRAW is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCRAW mean?
- A thin strip of sod or turf, especially one cut from a peat bog or field.
- What letters can be added to SCRAW?
- SCRAW takes 5 hooks: 0 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SCRAW:
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