WO is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. WO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WO?
| 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: 59 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WO is to know. It scores 5 from 2 tiles, takes 11 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WO scores
Face value of the 2 tiles in WO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 2 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 309.
What stands out about WO
- Only 5 words of 2 letters carry a W, and WO is one of them.
- WO is one of just 133 words of 2 letters in the four lists we check — a short list worth knowing by heart.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does WO mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
Grief or misery; an older spelling of woe.
Wo is how the word looked before the final e settled onto it, and it survives in ballads, hymn books and older Bibles. Nothing separates wo from the modern spelling in meaning; the difference is the age of the page it sits on. Editors usually modernise it, which is why wo now reads like a misprint to most people.
How WO is used
Behaves as a mass noun with no plural — much wo, not a wo — and commonly follows a verb such as know, bring or tell.
- The ballad tells of wo without naming its cause.
- Much wo came of that winter.
- The hymn speaks of wo turned into gladness.
- He knew wo enough before he was twenty.
- Old chapbooks are full of wo and warning.
- The chronicler set down famine and wo in the same line.
- Her letters record more wo than she ever said aloud.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WO and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see WO
- WO in the armed forces stands for warrant officer, a rank between the commissioned and the non-commissioned.
- In Chinese romanisation wo is the word for I, and it is among the first that any learner meets.
Anagrams of WO
The 2 tiles of WO in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WO
Showing 24 of 954 words that begin with WO.
Words ending in WO
1 words end in WO. Useful as a back hook: play WO onto a word already on the board.
Words with WO inside
Showing 24 of 1878 words that contain WO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about WO
- Is WO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WO, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WO worth?
- WO is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WO mean?
- Grief or misery; an older spelling of woe.
- What letters can be added to WO?
- WO takes 11 hooks: 1 in front and 10 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 2 letters of WO:
Open WO in the Word Finder