WEY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. WEY 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 9 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept WEY?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WEY is to know. It scores 9 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WEY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WEY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in WEY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What stands out about WEY
- The same 3 tiles also spell 2 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 WEY mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An old English measure of weight or bulk whose size depended on what was being sold.
A wey of wool, a wey of cheese and a wey of salt were three different quantities, because the unit began as a cartload and settled differently in every trade. Statutes tried to pin it down more than once and mostly failed, so a merchant who read wey in a contract had to know the goods before he knew the amount. It survives now in old accounts and in the occasional field name.
How WEY is used
Takes an article and names the goods after it — a wey of cheese, two weys of wool — and is not used on its own for an amount.
- The bill of sale lists a wey of cheese and two barrels of ale.
- A wey of wool weighed far more in one county than in the next.
- He was paid by the wey and never asked how much that was.
- Two weys of salt went north on the same waggon.
- The clerk wrote wey where a modern hand would write a number of pounds.
- Nobody agreed what a wey should be, and the statutes kept saying so.
- The field is still called Wey Close after the measure, not the river.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WEY and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WEY
The 3 tiles of WEY in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with WEY
3 longer words begin with WEY.
Words ending in WEY
2 words end in WEY. Useful as a back hook: play WEY onto a word already on the board.
Words with WEY inside
3 words contain WEY in the middle. Words that start with WEY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WEY
Common questions about WEY
- Is WEY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WEY, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WEY worth?
- WEY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WEY mean?
- An old English measure of weight or bulk whose size depended on what was being sold.
- What letters can be added to WEY?
- WEY takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of WEY:
Open WEY in the Word Finder