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Is screwed a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word screwed is a Scrabble US word. The word screwed is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is screwed a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word screwed is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

S1C3R1E1W4E1D2

Is screwed a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word screwed is a Words With Friends word. The word screwed is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1C4R1E1W4E1D2

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7-letter words (2 found)

DECREWS,SCREWED,

6-letter words (7 found)

CEDERS,CREEDS,CREWED,CREWES,DECREW,REWEDS,SCREED,

5-letter words (27 found)

CEDER,CEDES,CERED,CERES,CREDS,CREED,CREES,CREWE,CREWS,DEERS,DERES,DREES,EWERS,REDES,REEDS,RESEW,REWED,SCREE,SCREW,SEDER,SERED,SEWED,SEWER,SWEDE,SWEED,SWEER,WEEDS,

4-letter words (31 found)

CEDE,CEES,CERE,CRED,CREE,CREW,DEER,DEES,DERE,DEWS,DREE,DREW,ERED,ERES,EWER,EWES,RECS,REDE,REDS,REED,REES,REWS,SEED,SEER,SERE,SWEE,WEDS,WEED,WEER,WEES,WERE,

3-letter words (20 found)

CEE,DEE,DEW,EDS,EEW,ERE,ERS,EWE,REC,RED,REE,RES,REW,SEC,SED,SEE,SER,SEW,WED,WEE,

2-letter words (8 found)

DE,ED,EE,ER,ES,EW,RE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 96 words from screwed according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of screwed

screwed

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “The reference given does not support most of the claims.”) From screw +‎ -ed.

  • The modern sense of screwed originates in the mid-1600s with a sense of to screw as a means of "exerting pressure or coercion", probably in reference to instruments of torture (e.g. thumbscrews). It quickly gained a wider general sense of "in a bind; in unfortunate inescapable circumstances". When the verb screw gained a sexual connotation in the early 1700s, it joined the long-lasting association of sexual imagery as a metaphor for domination, leading to screwed gaining synonyms like fucked and shagged. On a more general note, this is a prime example of the frequent tendency for verb participles to evolve into participial adjectives.
  • The sense meaning "intoxicated" is from the early 1800s, and is associated with the term screwy, and the idiom to have a screw loose.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uːd

Adjective

screwed (comparative more screwed, superlative most screwed)

  1. (slang, mildly vulgar) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
  2. (slang, British, dated) Intoxicated.

Usage notes

  • Often employed as a bowdlerization, or substitution, for fucked.

Usage notes

Because the sexual act as a metaphor for domination is a frequent association for the term 'screwed', it is potentially offensive in polite circles.

Synonyms

  • (beset, vulgar): fucked, dicked, shagged (British); see also Thesaurus:in trouble
  • (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

  • screwed, blued and tattooed / screwed, glued and tattooed
  • screwedness

Related terms

  • screw over

Translations

See also

  • screwed up

Verb

screwed

  1. simple past and past participle of screw
    He screwed the boards together tightly.
    I got screwed at the swap meet yesterday.
    • 1641, Richard Chambers (merchant), quoted in Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise, Part II: The After-Growth of the Constitution, H.O. Houghton & Company (1889), p. 274,
      […] merchants are in no part of the world so screwed as in England. In Turkey, they have more encouragement.

References

Anagrams

  • decrews

Source: wiktionary.org