SEW is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. SEW 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 SEW?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SEW is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SEW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SEW scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in SEW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does SEW mean in Scrabble?
verb
To join cloth with a needle and thread.
Sew and sow are said alike and mean nothing similar, which trips up more writing than almost any other pair in English. The past participle sewn keeps an older form that the regular one has never quite displaced.
How SEW is used
Transitive and intransitive. The past participle is sewn or sewed.
- She sews faster by hand than most people do by machine.
- The hem was sewn twice and came down anyway.
- He was sewing a button on in the car park.
- To sew and to sow sound identical and mean nothing alike.
- A seam sewn well outlasts the cloth around it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SEW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SEW
Showing 24 of 31 words that begin with SEW.
Words ending in SEW
7 words end in SEW. Useful as a back hook: play SEW onto a word already on the board.
Words with SEW inside
Showing 24 of 114 words that contain SEW somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SEW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SEW
Common questions about SEW
- Is SEW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SEW, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SEW worth?
- SEW is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SEW mean?
- To join cloth with a needle and thread.
- What letters can be added to SEW?
- SEW takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of SEW:
Open SEW in the Word Finder