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What does hew mean? Is hew a Scrabble word?

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Is hew a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hew is a Scrabble US word. The word hew is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

H4E1W4

Is hew a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hew is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

H4E1W4

Is hew a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word hew is a Words With Friends word. The word hew is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

H3E1W4

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3-letter words (1 found)

HEW,

2-letter words (4 found)

EH,EW,HE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from hew according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hew

hew

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to strike, hew, forge”). Cognate to German hauen, Dutch houwen and Swedish hugga. Sense 3 derives from the phrase hew to the line (literally “cut evenly with an axe or saw”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hjuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Homophones: hue, Hiw, Hugh

Verb

hew (third-person singular simple present hews, present participle hewing, simple past hewed or (rare) hew, past participle hewn or hewed or (archaic) hewen)

  1. (ambitransitive) To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
  2. (transitive) To shape; to form.
  3. (transitive, US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
    • 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography,[5] Jennings & Graham, page 428
      Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

hew (countable and uncountable, plural hews)

  1. (obsolete) Destruction by cutting down or hewing.

Etymology 2

See hue.

Noun

hew (countable and uncountable, plural hews)

  1. (obsolete) Hue; colour.
  2. (obsolete) Shape; form.

Anagrams

  • weh

Zaghawa

Noun

hew

  1. baboon

References

  • Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

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