YAH is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. YAH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept YAH?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YAH is to know. It scores 9 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YAH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How YAH scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in YAH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What does YAH mean in Scrabble?
interjection
informal
Yes, in a drawling or affected pronunciation.
Yah is written to mark a voice rather than a word: in British writing it signals a particular kind of expensive accent, and using it about somebody is never neutral. In South Africa the same spelling is simply the ordinary word for yes and carries no judgement at all.
How YAH is used
Stands alone. Informal; the tone depends entirely on the country.
- Yah, absolutely, we said that last week.
- The novelist gives him a yah in the first line and we know the type.
- In Cape Town yah is neutral and in London it is not.
- She said yah and everybody placed her school.
- A written yah is doing the work of an accent.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YAH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of YAH
The 3 tiles of YAH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with YAH
7 longer words begin with YAH.
Words ending in YAH
14 words end in YAH. Useful as a back hook: play YAH onto a word already on the board.
Words with YAH inside
16 words contain YAH in the middle. Words that start with YAH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in YAH
Common questions about YAH
- Is YAH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YAH, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YAH worth?
- YAH is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YAH mean?
- Yes, in a drawling or affected pronunciation.
- What letters can be added to YAH?
- YAH takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of YAH:
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