WHAT is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. WHAT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WHAT?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WHAT is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WHAT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WHAT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WHAT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What does WHAT mean in Scrabble?
pronoun
Asking for information about something.
What belongs to a set of question words that all begin the same way in English and in most related languages, which is a very old pattern. The spelling with two letters once matched a sound that has since gone.
How WHAT is used
Pronoun, determiner and exclamation.
- What happened next was never written down.
- The word what belongs to a very old set of question words.
- What a mess, said everybody in turn.
- The spelling of what once matched the sound.
- Two questions beginning with what and no answers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WHAT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WHAT
The 4 tiles of WHAT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WHAT
Showing 24 of 37 words that begin with WHAT.
Words ending in WHAT
3 words end in WHAT. Useful as a back hook: play WHAT onto a word already on the board.
Words with WHAT inside
3 words contain WHAT in the middle. Words that start with WHAT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WHAT
Common questions about WHAT
- Is WHAT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WHAT, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WHAT worth?
- WHAT is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WHAT mean?
- Asking for information about something.
- What letters can be added to WHAT?
- WHAT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WHAT:
Open WHAT in the Word Finder