WHO is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. WHO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WHO?
| 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: 61 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WHO is to know. It scores 9 from 3 tiles, takes 8 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WHO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WHO scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in WHO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,053.
What does WHO mean in Scrabble?
pronoun
What person or people.
Who is the last English question word to keep a case form: whom is the object, and almost nobody uses it now except straight after a preposition. The rule is not so much disappearing as being replaced by a shorter one — put who at the front and stop worrying about it.
How WHO is used
Pronoun. The object form whom is now largely formal.
- Who left the door open?
- The man who wrote it never signed it.
- Who and whom differ by a rule most people ignore.
- She asked who was coming and got no answer.
- It matters less who said it than what was said.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WHO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WHO
The 3 tiles of WHO in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WHO
Showing 24 of 163 words that begin with WHO.
Words with WHO inside
Showing 24 of 32 words that contain WHO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WHO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WHO
Common questions about WHO
- Is WHO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WHO, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WHO worth?
- WHO is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WHO mean?
- What person or people.
- What letters can be added to WHO?
- WHO takes 8 hooks: 0 in front and 8 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of WHO:
Open WHO in the Word Finder