THRAW is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. THRAW is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THRAW?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THRAW is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THRAW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How THRAW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in THRAW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does THRAW mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectScots
To twist, bend, or distort something out of its natural shape; to behave in a stubborn or contrary way.
Thraw belongs to Scots and northern English dialect and describes both a physical twisting, as when pain or effort thraws a person's face, and a stubborn contrariness of character, since a thrawn person is one who twists away from what others want. The word is closely related to standard English throw and throe, all going back to the same old root meaning to twist or turn. Writers using Scots dialogue reach for thraw to give speech an authentic regional sound that a plain word like twist would not carry. The related adjective thrawn, meaning stubborn or perverse, is more widely recognised outside Scotland than the verb thraw itself.
How THRAW is used
Scots and northern English dialect, used mainly in regional speech and in writing that represents that speech.
- Pain made his face thraw into a grimace.
- The old man would thraw his mouth whenever he disagreed.
- She watched the wet branch thraw as it dried in the sun.
- His stubborn nature made him thraw against any advice.
- The wind seemed to thraw the young sapling out of shape.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THRAW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of THRAW
The 5 tiles of THRAW in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with THRAW
7 longer words begin with THRAW.
Shorter words from the letters in THRAW
Common questions about THRAW
- Is THRAW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THRAW, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THRAW worth?
- THRAW is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THRAW mean?
- To twist, bend, or distort something out of its natural shape; to behave in a stubborn or contrary way.
- What letters can be added to THRAW?
- THRAW takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of THRAW:
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