SCROW is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. SCROW 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 SCROW?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCROW is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCROW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCROW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SCROW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does SCROW mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicdialect
An old word for a scroll, a roll of paper or parchment kept for writing or record.
Scrow reached English through Scots usage, where clerks and lawyers used it for any rolled document kept as a record. It fell out of general use as scroll became the standard term, though scrow still turns up in older Scottish legal and literary texts. Some regional glossaries also record a second, unrelated sense of scrow for a currier's leather clippings, but the meaning of a rolled document is the one most often cited.
How SCROW is used
Archaic and mainly Scottish; modern writing uses scroll instead.
- The clerk kept every scrow tied with a length of ribbon.
- An old scrow of parchment lay forgotten in the chest.
- Historians transcribed the scrow before the ink faded further.
- The lawyer unrolled the scrow to read the ancient charter.
- Modern readers rarely meet the word scrow outside old records.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCROW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SCROW
The 5 tiles of SCROW in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SCROW
11 longer words begin with SCROW.
Words ending in SCROW
1 words end in SCROW. Useful as a back hook: play SCROW onto a word already on the board.
Words with SCROW inside
7 words contain SCROW in the middle. Words that start with SCROW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SCROW
Common questions about SCROW
- Is SCROW valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SCROW is not in it.
- How many points is SCROW worth?
- SCROW is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCROW mean?
- An old word for a scroll, a roll of paper or parchment kept for writing or record.
- What letters can be added to SCROW?
- SCROW takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SCROW:
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