SPEWY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. SPEWY 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SPEWY?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPEWY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPEWY
No single letter turns SPEWY into another word.
How SPEWY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SPEWY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does SPEWY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Of ground, wet, boggy, and likely to give way underfoot.
Spewy describes soil so waterlogged that it seems to ooze moisture when walked on, sinking underfoot rather than holding firm. The word is tied to spew in its older sense of gushing or welling up, applied here to water rising through soft earth rather than to anything being vomited. It is a country and dialect word, heard more in descriptions of fields and moorland than in everyday speech.
How SPEWY is used
Dialect and rural British usage, describing land rather than people or objects.
- The lower field turns spewy after a week of rain.
- Sheep avoid the spewy ground near the stream in winter.
- A spewy patch of moor can swallow a boot to the ankle.
- The path was too spewy to cross without sinking.
- Old maps mark the spewy meadow as unsafe for carts.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPEWY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SPEWY
Common questions about SPEWY
- Is SPEWY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SPEWY is not in it.
- How many points is SPEWY worth?
- SPEWY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPEWY mean?
- Of ground, wet, boggy, and likely to give way underfoot.
- What letters can be added to SPEWY?
- No single letter can be added to SPEWY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SPEWY:
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