WHORE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. WHORE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WHORE?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WHORE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WHORE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WHORE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WHORE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does WHORE mean in Scrabble?
noun
offensive
A person, especially a woman, who has sex for payment; a prostitute.
Whore is one of the oldest words in English for a person who sells sex, and it has survived for centuries even as more clinical terms like prostitute became preferred in formal writing. Because the word is blunt and often used as a deliberate insult, it is generally avoided in polite or professional contexts in favor of neutral alternatives. Beyond its original sense, whore is sometimes used loosely and abusively to criticize someone for behaving in a servile way, though that extended use is considered crude. Dictionaries still record the word mainly for its long historical and literary presence.
How WHORE is used
A blunt, often offensive term; prostitute or sex worker are the preferred neutral alternatives in careful writing.
- The old play uses the word whore to insult the character openly.
- Historians note that the term whore appears often in medieval court records.
- He called her a whore in anger, an insult she never forgave.
- The narrator uses the word whore deliberately to shock the reader.
- Dictionaries mark whore as an old and often offensive word for a prostitute.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WHORE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WHORE
The 5 tiles of WHORE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WHORE
19 longer words begin with WHORE.
Words ending in WHORE
2 words end in WHORE. Useful as a back hook: play WHORE onto a word already on the board.
Words with WHORE inside
4 words contain WHORE in the middle. Words that start with WHORE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WHORE
Common questions about WHORE
- Is WHORE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WHORE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WHORE worth?
- WHORE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WHORE mean?
- A person, especially a woman, who has sex for payment; a prostitute.
- What letters can be added to WHORE?
- WHORE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WHORE:
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