YWIS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. YWIS 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 YWIS?
| 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 YWIS 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 YWIS
No single letter turns YWIS into another word.
How YWIS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in YWIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 27,231.
What does YWIS mean in Scrabble?
adverb
archaic
Certainly; indeed.
Ywis is archaic and was often printed with a capital in old texts, which led editors to mistake it for a pronoun followed by a verb. That misreading persisted for about a century.
How YWIS is used
Archaic. Chiefly in early modern texts.
- The word ywis means certainly and nothing else.
- Editors misread ywis as two words for a century.
- A capital letter caused the confusion around ywis.
- Ywis appears in early modern texts and nowhere later.
- Two editions print ywis differently and change the sense.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YWIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words with YWIS inside
4 words contain YWIS in the middle. Words that start with YWIS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in YWIS
Common questions about YWIS
- Is YWIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YWIS, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YWIS worth?
- YWIS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YWIS mean?
- Certainly; indeed.
- What letters can be added to YWIS?
- No single letter can be added to YWIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of YWIS:
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