TWYER is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. TWYER 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 TWYER?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TWYER is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TWYER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TWYER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TWYER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does TWYER mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalhistorical
An older English spelling of tuyere, naming the pipe fitted into a furnace or forge wall that carries a forced draught of air to the fire.
A twyer sits low in the wall of a blast furnace or blacksmith's forge and carries the air blast that keeps the fire burning hot enough to smelt metal. Without it the fire would starve of oxygen and cool long before the ore or iron reached working temperature. The word is an older spelling of tuyere, borrowed from French, and both forms are still found in books on metalworking and industrial history. Traditional smithies and foundries still use the same basic device today, though it is now more often called by its French spelling.
How TWYER is used
A technical term from metalworking and furnace design, met mainly in historical and industrial writing.
- Air roared through the twyer and the coals in the forge glowed white.
- The blacksmith checked the twyer before pumping the bellows.
- Nineteenth-century blast furnaces often had a twyer set into the wall near the base.
- A blocked twyer starves the fire of the air it needs.
- The museum display explained how a twyer feeds air into an iron furnace.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TWYER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TWYER
3 longer words begin with TWYER.
Shorter words from the letters in TWYER
Common questions about TWYER
- Is TWYER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TWYER, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TWYER worth?
- TWYER is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TWYER mean?
- An older English spelling of tuyere, naming the pipe fitted into a furnace or forge wall that carries a forced draught of air to the fire.
- What letters can be added to TWYER?
- TWYER takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TWYER:
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