YAWEY is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 14 points
Yes for Scrabble. YAWEY is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept YAWEY?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YAWEY is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YAWEY
No single letter turns YAWEY into another word.
How YAWEY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in YAWEY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What stands out about YAWEY
- YAWEY begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does YAWEY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicalrare
Affected by or relating to yaws, a tropical infectious skin disease.
Yawey, also spelled yawy, describes skin or sores connected to yaws, a bacterial disease that causes raised, wart-like lesions and mostly affects children in warm, humid regions. The word appears almost exclusively in older medical or descriptive writing about the disease rather than in everyday conversation. It is now rare, since yaws is more often discussed using the noun itself or plain clinical terms.
How YAWEY is used
Rare medical adjective, describing symptoms or sufferers connected to yaws.
- The report described yawey lesions on the child's legs.
- Doctors in the region once treated many yawey patients each year.
- The old medical text listed yawey sores among tropical symptoms.
- A yawey rash was noted before the diagnosis was confirmed.
- Villagers recognized the yawey marks from earlier outbreaks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YAWEY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in YAWEY
Common questions about YAWEY
- Is YAWEY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and YAWEY is not in it.
- How many points is YAWEY worth?
- YAWEY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YAWEY mean?
- Affected by or relating to yaws, a tropical infectious skin disease.
- What letters can be added to YAWEY?
- No single letter can be added to YAWEY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of YAWEY:
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