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Is shaw a Scrabble word?

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

S1H4A1W4

Is shaw a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1H4A1W4

Is shaw a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word shaw is a Words With Friends word. The word shaw is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1H3A1W4

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4-letter words (4 found)

HAWS,SHAW,SHWA,WASH,

3-letter words (8 found)

AHS,ASH,HAS,HAW,SAW,SHA,WAS,WHA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AH,AS,AW,HA,SH,

You can make 17 words from shaw according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of shaw

shaw hsaw sahw ashw hasw ahsw shwa hswa swha wsha hwsa whsa sawh aswh swah wsah awsh wash haws ahws hwas whas awhs wahs

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

Definitions and meaning of shaw

shaw

Alternative forms

  • shawe (13th–17th centuries)

Etymology

From Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ʃɔː/
    Homophones: sure, Shaw, shore
  • (US) IPA(key): /ʃɔ/
    Homophone: Shaw
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ʃɑ/
    (in accents with the cot-caught merger and father-bother merger) Homophone: shah
  • Rhymes: -ɔː

Noun

shaw (plural shaws)

  1. (dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
  2. (Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
    Coordinate terms: straw, stover, trash

Translations

Anagrams

  • -wash, Haws, WASH, Wahs, Wash, Wash., haws, shwa, wahs, wash

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English schewen, schawen, scheawen, from Old English scēawian, from Proto-Germanic *skawwōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-.

Noun

shaw (plural shaws)

  1. A show.

Verb

shaw (third-person singular simple present shaws, present participle shawin, simple past shawt, past participle shawt)

  1. To show.

Source: wiktionary.org