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Is screw a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word screw is a Scrabble US word. The word screw is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is screw a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word screw is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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5-letter words (2 found)

CREWS,SCREW,

4-letter words (3 found)

CREW,RECS,REWS,

3-letter words (7 found)

ERS,REC,RES,REW,SEC,SER,SEW,

2-letter words (5 found)

ER,ES,EW,RE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from screw according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of screw

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Definitions and meaning of screw

screw

Etymology

From Middle English screw, scrue (“screw”); apparently, despite the difference in meaning, from Old French escroue (“nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole”), from Latin scrōfa (“female pig”) through comparison with the corkscrew shape of a pig's penis. There is also the Old French escruve (“screw”), from Old Dutch *scrūva ("screw"; whence Middle Dutch schruyve (“screw”)), which probably influenced or conflated with the aforementioned, resulting in the Middle English word.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɹuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Noun

screw (plural screws)

  1. A device that has a helical function.
    1. A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
    2. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
    3. (nautical) A ship's propeller.
    4. An Archimedes screw.
    5. A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
  2. The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
  3. (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
    • 1994, Frank Darabont, The Shawshank Redemption (film):
      And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison.
  4. (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
  5. (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
  6. (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
  7. (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:casual sexual partner
  8. (slang) Salary, wages.
  9. (billiards) Backspin.
  10. (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
  11. (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
  12. (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
  13. An amphipod crustacean.
  14. (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.

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See also

  • bolt
  • lampholder

Verb

screw (third-person singular simple present screws, present participle screwing, simple past and past participle screwed)

  1. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
    Synonyms: screw up; see also Thesaurus:join
  2. (transitive, intransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
    Synonyms: (vulgar, slang) fuck, (Australia) root, (British) shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
  3. (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
    Synonyms: (vulgar, slang) fuck, screw over
  4. (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
  5. (transitive) To contort.
    Synonyms: twist, writhe
  6. (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
  7. (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
  8. (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
  9. (intransitive, US, slang, often imperative, dated) To leave; to go away; to scram. [from early to mid 20th c.]
  10. (colloquial, transitive, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
    Synonyms: bugger, eff, to hell with, screw

Antonyms

  • unscrew

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Anagrams

  • Crews, crews

Source: wiktionary.org