WOO is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. WOO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WOO?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WOO is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WOO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WOO scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in WOO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,888.
What does WOO mean in Scrabble?
verb
To try to win somebody's love or support.
Woo is old-fashioned about courtship and entirely current about everything else: nobody woos a person now without irony, and everybody woos investors, voters and customers. The shift happened quietly, and the word survives in business writing precisely because it sounds slightly ridiculous.
How WOO is used
Transitive: to woo an audience. The old sense of courting is now humorous.
- The company spent a year wooing one customer.
- He wooed the board and lost the vote anyway.
- Nobody woos anybody now without putting it in quotation marks.
- They woo voters in the spring and forget them by autumn.
- To woo in the old sense survives only in songs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WOO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WOO
Showing 24 of 320 words that begin with WOO.
Words with WOO inside
Showing 24 of 326 words that contain WOO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WOO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WOO
Common questions about WOO
- Is WOO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WOO, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WOO worth?
- WOO is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WOO mean?
- To try to win somebody's love or support.
- What letters can be added to WOO?
- WOO takes 6 hooks: 0 in front and 6 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of WOO:
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