THEWY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. THEWY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THEWY?
| 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 THEWY is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THEWY
No single letter turns THEWY into another word.
How THEWY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in THEWY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does THEWY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Muscular and sinewy, having well-developed thews.
Thewy describes a body built with strong, visible muscle, drawing on the older noun thews for the sinews and muscles that give a limb its power. The word belongs to a literary and somewhat old-fashioned vocabulary, often found in adventure fiction describing warriors, labourers or heroic figures. It is rarely used in ordinary conversation, where muscular or brawny would be the natural choice instead.
How THEWY is used
Literary and somewhat archaic; found mainly in fiction describing physically powerful characters.
- The novel describes the blacksmith as a thewy giant of a man.
- His thewy arms swung the axe with ease.
- The old poem praises the thewy strength of the warrior.
- She pictured a thewy hero from the adventure stories of her youth.
- The statue shows a thewy figure straining against its chains.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THEWY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of THEWY
The 5 tiles of THEWY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in THEWY
Common questions about THEWY
- Is THEWY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THEWY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THEWY worth?
- THEWY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THEWY mean?
- Muscular and sinewy, having well-developed thews.
- What letters can be added to THEWY?
- No single letter can be added to THEWY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of THEWY:
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