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Is gnaw a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gnaw is a Scrabble US word. The word gnaw is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

G2N1A1W4

Is gnaw a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gnaw is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

G2N1A1W4

Is gnaw a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word gnaw is a Words With Friends word. The word gnaw is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

G3N2A1W4

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4-letter words (2 found)

GNAW,WANG,

3-letter words (7 found)

AWN,GAN,GAW,NAG,NAW,WAG,WAN,

2-letter words (4 found)

AG,AN,AW,NA,

You can make 13 words from gnaw according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of gnaw

gnaw ngaw ganw agnw nagw angw gnwa ngwa gwna wgna nwga wnga gawn agwn gwan wgan awgn wagn nawg anwg nwag wnag awng wang

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

Definitions and meaning of gnaw

gnaw

Etymology

From Middle English gnawen, gnaȝen, from Old English gnagan, from Proto-Germanic *gnaganą. Cognate with Dutch knagen, German nagen, Norwegian Bokmål gnage, Norwegian Nynorsk gnaga, Swedish gnaga. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰnēgʰ- (“to gnaw, scratch”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: nô, IPA(key): /nɔː/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː
  • (US) enPR: nô, IPA(key): /nɔ/
  • (cot–caught merger) enPR: nä, IPA(key): /nɑ/
  • Homophone: nor (in non-rhotic accents)

Verb

gnaw (third-person singular simple present gnaws, present participle gnawing, simple past gnawed or (dialectal) gnew, past participle gnawed or (archaic) gnawn)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
  2. (intransitive) To produce excessive anxiety or worry.
  3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

Derived terms

  • begnaw
  • gnaw someone's vitals
  • gnawer
  • gnawable
  • ungnawed

Related terms

  • nag

Translations

Noun

gnaw (plural gnaws)

  1. the act of gnawing

Anagrams

  • AgNW, Ngwa, Wang, g'wan, gawn, gwan, wang

Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡnau̯/

Noun

gnaw

  1. Soft mutation of knaw.

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