TOWIE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TOWIE 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 TOWIE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TOWIE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TOWIE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TOWIE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TOWIE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,262.
What does TOWIE mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalAustralianNew Zealand
In Australian and New Zealand informal use, a person who drives a tow truck, or the tow truck itself; also, less commonly, a form of contract bridge played by three players.
A towie is called out to haul away a broken-down car, clear an accident scene or shift an illegally parked vehicle, and Australians and New Zealanders use the word casually for both the driver and the truck itself. The card-game sense of towie, a variant of contract bridge adapted for exactly three players instead of the usual four, is far less widely known and turns up mainly in specialist references on card games. Newspapers in Australia sometimes report on towie disputes over unfair towing charges, reflecting how ordinary the word has become in everyday complaints about parking and traffic. Because towie stays firmly informal, it rarely appears in formal writing outside quoted speech or local news reporting.
How TOWIE is used
Informal, chiefly Australian and New Zealand, most often used for a tow-truck driver or the truck itself.
- The towie arrived within twenty minutes to haul the car away.
- She called a towie after the engine failed on the highway.
- The towie hitched up the wrecked sedan and drove off.
- Local drivers complained about the towie charging double at night.
- Few players outside Australia have heard of towie as a card game.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TOWIE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TOWIE
3 longer words begin with TOWIE.
Shorter words from the letters in TOWIE
Common questions about TOWIE
- Is TOWIE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TOWIE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TOWIE worth?
- TOWIE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TOWIE mean?
- In Australian and New Zealand informal use, a person who drives a tow truck, or the tow truck itself; also, less commonly, a form of contract bridge played by three players.
- What letters can be added to TOWIE?
- TOWIE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TOWIE:
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