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Is chaw a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word chaw is a Scrabble US word. The word chaw is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

C3H4A1W4

Is chaw a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word chaw is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

C3H4A1W4

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4-letter words (1 found)

CHAW,

3-letter words (5 found)

ACH,CAW,CHA,HAW,WHA,

2-letter words (4 found)

AH,AW,CH,HA,

You can make 10 words from chaw according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of chaw

chaw hcaw cahw achw hacw ahcw chwa hcwa cwha wcha hwca whca cawh acwh cwah wcah awch wach hawc ahwc hwac whac awhc wahc

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word chaw. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in chaw.

Definitions and meaning of chaw

chaw

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɔ/
    • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɔː/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː
  • Homophone: chore (non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English chawen, an unexplained variation of chewen (“to chew”). See chew for more. Cognate with Middle Dutch cauwen ("to chew"; whence Dutch kauwen), obsolete Dutch kauw (“the act of chewing, that which is chewed, chewed mass, wad of tobacco”), Middle Low German kauwen, kauen (“to chew”). Compare also Old English ġecow (“that which is chewed, food”) and *ġeċēow (“chewing”), whence Middle English icheu (“gnawing, biting”).

Noun

chaw (countable and uncountable, plural chaws)

  1. (countable) That which is chewed.
  2. (Appalachia, informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.

Verb

chaw (third-person singular simple present chaws, present participle chawing, simple past and past participle chawed)

  1. (archaic or nonstandard outside dialects, e.g. Appalachia, Southern US) To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).
    • c. 1540, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Translations from the Æneid, Book 4, in The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1920, page 130[1]:
      The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,
      Chawing the fomie bit, there fercely stood.
    • 2006, Hackett (Indianapolis) edition of Edmund Spenser's [1590] “Book I, Canto IV” of The Faerie Queene, page 62:
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider
    • , Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62,
  3. (UK, slang) To steal.
Derived terms
  • chaw up
  • chawbacon

Etymology 2

From Early Modern English chawe, either a form of Middle English chaul, chavel, jawle (“jaw”) (whence also English jowl) which has lost the final -l, or a form of Middle English jowe, jawe (“jaw”). See jowl and jaw for more.

Noun

chaw (plural chaws)

  1. (obsolete) The jaw.
    • 2006, Hackett (Indianapolis) edition of Edmund Spenser's [1590] “Book I, Canto IV” of The Faerie Queene, page 62:

Etymology 3

Noun

chaw (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of cha (“tea”).

See also

  • chees and chaws

References

Anagrams

  • WHCA, Wach

Source: wiktionary.org