VROUW is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. VROUW is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VROUW?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VROUW is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VROUW
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
vrouwsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VROUW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VROUW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does VROUW mean in Scrabble?
noun
South African
A woman, especially an Afrikaner or Dutch woman, particularly in South African usage.
The word vrouw comes directly from Dutch and Afrikaans, where it simply means woman or wife, and English speakers in South Africa borrowed it to refer to a Boer or Afrikaner woman in earlier writing. It appears mostly in older travel accounts, farm memoirs and historical fiction describing colonial life, and today it is felt as an old-fashioned or regional term rather than everyday vocabulary. Because it keeps its Dutch spelling and vowel sound, an English speaker in Britain or America is unlikely to know the word vrouw without prior exposure to South African history. Scrabble players value vrouw for its unusual letter run, which is otherwise rare in English word lists.
How VROUW is used
Regional and rather dated; found in South African English writing about farm and colonial life more than in general conversation.
- The old vrouw sat on the stoep watching the wagons pass.
- Travellers described the Boer vrouw managing the household alone.
- Her grandmother, a vrouw of the eastern Cape, still spoke Dutch at home.
- The novel calls her simply the vrouw, never by her first name.
- He addressed the innkeeper's wife respectfully as vrouw.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VROUW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VROUW
1 longer words begin with VROUW.
Shorter words from the letters in VROUW
Common questions about VROUW
- Is VROUW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VROUW, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VROUW worth?
- VROUW is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VROUW mean?
- A woman, especially an Afrikaner or Dutch woman, particularly in South African usage.
- What letters can be added to VROUW?
- VROUW takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VROUW:
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