TAWSE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TAWSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TAWSE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TAWSE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TAWSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TAWSE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TAWSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about TAWSE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TAWSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalScots
A leather strap, typically cut into narrow tongues at one end, formerly used to punish children by striking the hand, especially in Scottish schools.
Teachers in Scotland and parts of northern England once kept a tawse in the classroom as a standard instrument of corporal punishment, calling a pupil forward to receive one or more strokes on the palm for breaking school rules. The split end spread the blow across several narrow straps rather than one solid strip, which was thought to sting sharply without causing lasting injury. Tawse could also serve as a verb, so a teacher was said to tawse a pupil rather than simply strike them, framing the punishment as a formal, almost ritual act. Scotland formally banned corporal punishment in schools in the late twentieth century, and the tawse survives today mainly as a historical object mentioned in memoirs and accounts of older schooling.
How TAWSE is used
Historical, chiefly Scots; encountered in accounts of older schooling and corporal punishment rather than in current use.
- The headmaster kept the tawse in his desk drawer.
- He remembered the sting of the tawse on his palm.
- Old school records mention pupils punished with the tawse.
- The museum displayed a leather tawse from a nineteenth-century classroom.
- She wrote a memoir describing the fear the tawse once inspired.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TAWSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TAWSE
The 5 tiles of TAWSE in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with TAWSE
2 longer words begin with TAWSE.
Shorter words from the letters in TAWSE
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Common questions about TAWSE
- Is TAWSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TAWSE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TAWSE worth?
- TAWSE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TAWSE mean?
- A leather strap, typically cut into narrow tongues at one end, formerly used to punish children by striking the hand, especially in Scottish schools.
- What letters can be added to TAWSE?
- TAWSE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TAWSE:
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