YEESH is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 11 points
Yes for Scrabble. YEESH 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 YEESH?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YEESH is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YEESH
No single letter turns YEESH into another word.
How YEESH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in YEESH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 71,295.
What does YEESH mean in Scrabble?
interjection
informal
An exclamation used to express frustration, dismay, or mild exasperation.
Yeesh works the same way as sheesh or geez: a speaker drops it in front of a remark to signal that something is annoying, excessive, or harder than expected before saying anything more specific. It carries no fixed grammatical role of its own and never changes form, which is typical of this whole family of casual exclamations.
How YEESH is used
Informal and spoken; common in casual conversation and rare in formal writing.
- Yeesh, this line has not moved in twenty minutes.
- She looked at the repair bill and just said yeesh.
- Yeesh, I did not expect the meeting to run that long.
- He muttered yeesh under his breath when the printer jammed again.
- Yeesh was the only word anyone had after seeing the mess in the kitchen.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YEESH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in YEESH
Common questions about YEESH
- Is YEESH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and YEESH is not in it.
- How many points is YEESH worth?
- YEESH is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YEESH mean?
- An exclamation used to express frustration, dismay, or mild exasperation.
- What letters can be added to YEESH?
- No single letter can be added to YEESH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of YEESH:
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