WIST is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. WIST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WIST?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WIST is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WIST
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WIST scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does WIST mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To have known: the past tense of the old verb wit.
Wist belongs to the verb wit, to know, which survives in modern English only in to wit and in witness. The form reads as biblical because that is where most readers meet it — the older translations use wist not for effect but because it was the ordinary word.
How WIST is used
Past tense of wit. Not used in modern prose except in deliberate archaism.
- He wist not what to answer.
- They wist that the road was long before they set out.
- The older translation has wist where the newer one has knew.
- She wist well enough what the silence meant.
- Wist appears four times in that chapter alone.
- Nobody wist the hour, and nobody asked.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WIST and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WIST
The 4 tiles of WIST in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WIST
14 longer words begin with WIST.
Words ending in WIST
8 words end in WIST. Useful as a back hook: play WIST onto a word already on the board.
Words with WIST inside
Showing 24 of 32 words that contain WIST somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WIST are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WIST
Common questions about WIST
- Is WIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WIST, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WIST worth?
- WIST is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WIST mean?
- To have known: the past tense of the old verb wit.
- What letters can be added to WIST?
- WIST takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WIST:
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