UNMEW is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. UNMEW is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UNMEW?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNMEW is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNMEW
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
unmewsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UNMEW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in UNMEW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does UNMEW mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To release from confinement, especially a hawk from its mew, or more generally to set free something that has been shut away.
To unmew someone or something is to let it out of confinement, a sense drawn directly from the falconry word mew, the cage or coop where a hawk was kept, especially while moulting. Poets and older writers extended the word beyond falconry, using unmew figuratively for freeing a person or a feeling from restraint, such as unmewing a caged spirit or a suppressed emotion. The word belongs almost entirely to older and literary English, and a modern writer describing an animal being released would more likely say let out or free. Its survival owes much to poetic and archaic writing, where unmew adds a slightly formal, old-fashioned flavour.
How UNMEW is used
Archaic and literary, found in older poetry and formal writing rather than in ordinary modern speech.
- The falconer would unmew the hawk each morning to fly.
- The poem speaks of a spirit unmewed at last from grief.
- He unmewed the caged bird before the storm arrived.
- The old text describes how the keeper would unmew the falcons for the hunt.
- She felt unmewed from years of quiet restraint.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNMEW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UNMEW
3 longer words begin with UNMEW.
Shorter words from the letters in UNMEW
Common questions about UNMEW
- Is UNMEW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNMEW, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNMEW worth?
- UNMEW is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNMEW mean?
- To release from confinement, especially a hawk from its mew, or more generally to set free something that has been shut away.
- What letters can be added to UNMEW?
- UNMEW takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of UNMEW:
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