WIPER is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. WIPER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WIPER?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WIPER is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WIPER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WIPER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WIPER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does WIPER mean in Scrabble?
noun
A blade or mechanical arm that sweeps back and forth across a surface, especially a vehicle windscreen, to clear away rain or dirt.
A wiper is most familiar as the windscreen wiper fitted to cars, buses and trains, where a rubber blade mounted on a pivoting arm drags water and dirt off the glass so the driver can see. The same word covers similar sweeping mechanisms elsewhere in engineering: inside a potentiometer or volume control, the moving contact that slides across the resistive track is a wiper too. Older uses of the word covered any cloth or rag kept for wiping down machinery, and old mining equipment used the same name for the projecting cam that lifts and drops a stamping hammer. Today the word is used almost automatically as a short form of windscreen wiper in everyday speech.
How WIPER is used
General technical usage; in everyday speech, wiper is used as short for windscreen wiper.
- The wiper squeaked across the dry windscreen before the rain started properly.
- A worn wiper blade left streaks across the glass in heavy rain.
- The wiper on the potentiometer moved along the track as the knob turned.
- He kept an oily wiper tucked into his tool bag for cleaning the gun barrel.
- One wiper had frozen to the windscreen overnight and would not move.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WIPER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WIPER
1 longer words begin with WIPER.
Words ending in WIPER
3 words end in WIPER. Useful as a back hook: play WIPER onto a word already on the board.
Words with WIPER inside
3 words contain WIPER in the middle. Words that start with WIPER are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WIPER
Common questions about WIPER
- Is WIPER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WIPER, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WIPER worth?
- WIPER is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WIPER mean?
- A blade or mechanical arm that sweeps back and forth across a surface, especially a vehicle windscreen, to clear away rain or dirt.
- What letters can be added to WIPER?
- WIPER takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WIPER:
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