YAWS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. YAWS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept YAWS?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YAWS is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YAWS
No single letter turns YAWS into another word.
How YAWS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in YAWS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 27,231.
What stands out about YAWS
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does YAWS mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A tropical disease affecting skin and bone.
Yaws is caused by a bacterium closely related to the one behind syphilis but is spread by ordinary contact. A campaign in the 1950s very nearly eradicated it and then stopped too early.
How YAWS is used
Uncountable although plural in form.
- Yaws is spread by contact and not by anything else.
- The word yaws is plural in form and singular in use.
- A campaign in the 1950s nearly ended yaws.
- The bacterium behind yaws is a close relative of another.
- Stopping the yaws campaign early undid most of it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YAWS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of YAWS
The 4 tiles of YAWS in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in YAWS
Common questions about YAWS
- Is YAWS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YAWS, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YAWS worth?
- YAWS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YAWS mean?
- A tropical disease affecting skin and bone.
- What letters can be added to YAWS?
- No single letter can be added to YAWS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of YAWS:
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