WAST is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. WAST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WAST?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAST is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAST
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAST scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WAST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What stands out about WAST
- The same 4 tiles also spell 5 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does WAST mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To have been, in the old singular form that follows thou in the King James Bible, as in thou wast faithful.
A speaker who said thou wast was addressing one person directly, and the form survives now only in scripture, hymns and deliberately old-fashioned writing. Modern English collapsed it into the single form was.
How WAST is used
Archaic; met in older texts and in quotation rather than in current speech.
- Thou wast the first to speak against it.
- The hymn asks where wast thou in the beginning.
- He wrote wast where a modern writer would put were.
- The line reads better with wast than with was.
- She copied the phrase thou wast from the older edition.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WAST
The 4 tiles of WAST in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with WAST
Showing 24 of 55 words that begin with WAST.
Words with WAST inside
18 words contain WAST in the middle. Words that start with WAST are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WAST
Common questions about WAST
- Is WAST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WAST, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WAST worth?
- WAST is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAST mean?
- To have been, in the old singular form that follows thou in the King James Bible, as in thou wast faithful.
- What letters can be added to WAST?
- WAST takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WAST:
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