SPREW is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. SPREW 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 SPREW?
| 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 SPREW is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPREW
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sprewsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SPREW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SPREW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does SPREW mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectbotany
A thin, poorly developed stalk of asparagus.
Sprew is an old dialect name for a stunted or spindly stem of asparagus, the kind too thin and weak to sell as a proper spear. The same spelling was also once used as a variant of sprue, covering both the mould-casting channel and the intestinal disease of that name, so older texts can use sprew for any of these unrelated things. Modern growers keep to thin or spindly instead of sprew, which now survives mainly in dialect glossaries and word-game lists.
How SPREW is used
Rare and dialectal; mainly found describing undersized asparagus stalks, and occasionally as an old variant spelling of sprue.
- The gardener threw the sprew onto the compost heap.
- Only the thick spears sold well; the sprew went unsold.
- A cold spring left the bed full of thin sprew.
- Cooks trimmed away the sprew before serving the asparagus.
- The old word sprew described asparagus too spindly to bother cutting.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPREW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SPREW
1 longer words begin with SPREW.
Shorter words from the letters in SPREW
Common questions about SPREW
- Is SPREW valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SPREW is not in it.
- How many points is SPREW worth?
- SPREW is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPREW mean?
- A thin, poorly developed stalk of asparagus.
- What letters can be added to SPREW?
- SPREW takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SPREW:
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