SOW is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. SOW 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 SOW?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SOW is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SOW scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in SOW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,527.
What does SOW mean in Scrabble?
verb
To scatter seed on or in the ground.
Sow and sew sound alike and their past forms diverge: sowed and sown for one, sewed and sewn for the other. A quite separate sow, rhyming with cow, is a female pig — three words in two spellings, and nobody is ever confused.
How SOW is used
Transitive. The past participle is sown or sowed.
- They sow the winter wheat in October.
- The field was sown too thickly and thinned itself.
- He sows by hand on the small plot and by machine elsewhere.
- A sow with a litter is not to be approached.
- To sow and to sew are told apart only by spelling.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SOW
The 3 tiles of SOW in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SOW
Showing 24 of 74 words that begin with SOW.
Words ending in SOW
6 words end in SOW. Useful as a back hook: play SOW onto a word already on the board.
Words with SOW inside
Showing 24 of 35 words that contain SOW somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SOW are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SOW
Common questions about SOW
- Is SOW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOW, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOW worth?
- SOW is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOW mean?
- To scatter seed on or in the ground.
- What letters can be added to SOW?
- SOW takes 6 hooks: 0 in front and 6 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of SOW:
Open SOW in the Word Finder