WISHT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. WISHT is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept WISHT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WISHT is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WISHT
No single letter turns WISHT into another word.
How WISHT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WISHT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What stands out about WISHT
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does WISHT mean in Scrabble?
interjection
Scotsdialect
An exclamation telling someone to be quiet, roughly equivalent to hush.
Wisht is called out sharply to stop chatter or noise, much as hush or whisht are, and the three spellings circulate together in Scots and northern English dialect writing. It carries the force of a command rather than a description, so it stands alone in a sentence rather than modifying anything.
How WISHT is used
Confined to dialect speech and older texts that reproduce it; standard English speakers say hush instead.
- Wisht, she said, or you will wake the baby.
- The old man raised a hand and muttered wisht to the room.
- Wisht now, let the fiddler finish his tune.
- They fell wisht the moment the door creaked open.
- Wisht, cried the mother, before the children could argue further.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WISHT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WISHT
The 5 tiles of WISHT in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with WISHT
2 longer words begin with WISHT.
Shorter words from the letters in WISHT
Common questions about WISHT
- Is WISHT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and WISHT is not in it.
- How many points is WISHT worth?
- WISHT is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WISHT mean?
- An exclamation telling someone to be quiet, roughly equivalent to hush.
- What letters can be added to WISHT?
- No single letter can be added to WISHT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WISHT:
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