WHIPLASH is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. WHIPLASH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WHIPLASH?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WHIPLASH is to know. It scores 19 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WHIPLASH
No single letter turns WHIPLASH into another word.
How WHIPLASH scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in WHIPLASH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| h | 2 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so WHIPLASH has to be built on the board across turns.
What does WHIPLASH mean in Scrabble?
noun
A neck injury caused by a sudden violent jerk of the head, or the flexible lash of a whip.
Most people know whiplash from car accidents, where a rear-end crash snaps the head back and forth. The original meaning is the cracking end of a whip. As a verb it can describe any sharp, sudden swing.
How WHIPLASH is used
Common in medical, insurance and traffic talk, and figuratively for sudden reversals.
- She suffered whiplash after the collision.
- The whiplash of the leather cracked over the horses.
- Voters felt political whiplash after the quick policy change.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WHIPLASH and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WHIPLASH
3 longer words begin with WHIPLASH.
Shorter words from the letters in WHIPLASH
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Common questions about WHIPLASH
- Is WHIPLASH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WHIPLASH, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WHIPLASH worth?
- WHIPLASH is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WHIPLASH mean?
- A neck injury caused by a sudden violent jerk of the head, or the flexible lash of a whip.
- What letters can be added to WHIPLASH?
- No single letter can be added to WHIPLASH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of WHIPLASH:
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