THEOW is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. THEOW 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept THEOW?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THEOW is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THEOW
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
theowsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How THEOW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in THEOW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does THEOW mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalarchaic
An unfree servant or slave in Anglo-Saxon England, bound to a lord or household.
A theow occupied the lowest rank of Anglo-Saxon society, owned by a master and without the personal freedom held by a ceorl or a thegn. The word comes down from Old English and is used today almost only by historians describing the social structure of early medieval England, where theows worked land and households as property rather than as paid labourers. It has no living use outside this historical sense.
How THEOW is used
Historical term, found in writing about Anglo-Saxon society rather than in ordinary modern speech.
- The estate records listed the household theow along with the cattle and tools.
- A theow could sometimes buy freedom after years of service.
- The historian explained how a theow differed in status from a ceorl.
- Anglo-Saxon law set separate penalties for harming a theow.
- Few written accounts of a theow survive in their own words.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THEOW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with THEOW
1 longer words begin with THEOW.
Shorter words from the letters in THEOW
Common questions about THEOW
- Is THEOW valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and THEOW is not in it.
- How many points is THEOW worth?
- THEOW is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THEOW mean?
- An unfree servant or slave in Anglo-Saxon England, bound to a lord or household.
- What letters can be added to THEOW?
- THEOW takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of THEOW:
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