WAWA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. WAWA is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept WAWA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAWA is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAWA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
wawasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAWA scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WAWA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 2 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 108,923.
What does WAWA mean in Scrabble?
verb
historicalregional
To speak, a term used in Chinook Jargon, a trade language of the Pacific Northwest.
Wawa served as the everyday word for speaking or talking in Chinook Jargon, a trade language once used among Native American peoples and European settlers along the Pacific coast. As a noun, the same word simply meant speech or talk.
How WAWA is used
Historical, tied to Chinook Jargon and Pacific Northwest trade history.
- Traders learned to wawa a little Chinook Jargon to do business.
- The old journal records how the guide would wawa with each village they passed.
- Settlers picked up enough wawa to trade for supplies.
- He could wawa just enough to ask directions.
- The elder taught the children how to wawa in the old trade tongue.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAWA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WAWA
3 longer words begin with WAWA.
Words with WAWA inside
6 words contain WAWA in the middle. Words that start with WAWA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WAWA
Common questions about WAWA
- Is WAWA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and WAWA is not in it.
- How many points is WAWA worth?
- WAWA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAWA mean?
- To speak, a term used in Chinook Jargon, a trade language of the Pacific Northwest.
- What letters can be added to WAWA?
- WAWA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WAWA:
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