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What does shew mean? Is shew a Scrabble word?

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Is shew a Scrabble word?

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

S1H4E1W4

Is shew a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1H4E1W4

Is shew a Words With Friends word?

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

S1H3E1W4

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4-letter words (2 found)

HEWS,SHEW,

3-letter words (5 found)

EHS,HES,HEW,SEW,SHE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EH,ES,EW,HE,SH,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 14 words from shew according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of shew

shew hsew sehw eshw hesw ehsw shwe hswe swhe wshe hwse whse sewh eswh sweh wseh ewsh wesh hews ehws hwes whes ewhs wehs

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

Definitions and meaning of shew

shew

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ʃoʊ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃəʊ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊ

Verb

shew (third-person singular simple present shews, present participle shewing, simple past shewed, past participle shewn or shewed or (obsolete) shewen)

  1. Archaic spelling of show.
    • 1884: Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland, Sec. 4, Concerning the Women
      But, as I shall soon shew, this custom, though it has the advantage of safety, is not without its disadvantages.
    • 1908: T. J. I'a Bromwich, An Introduction to the Theory of Infinite Series, Power Series, Derangement of expansions.
      Expand the series 1 1 − x − x ( 1 − x ) 3 + 1 ⋅ 3 2 ! x 2 ( 1 − x ) 3 − 1 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 5 3 ! x 3 ( 1 − x ) 7 + ⋯ {\displaystyle {\frac {1}{1-x}}-{\frac {x}{(1-x)^{3}}}+{\frac {1\cdot 3}{2!}}{\frac {x^{2}}{(1-x)^{3}}}-{\frac {1\cdot 3\cdot 5}{3!}}{\frac {x^{3}}{(1-x)^{7}}}+\cdots } powers of x, shewing that the coefficient of x n {\displaystyle x^{n}} is S n = 1 + ∑ 1 n ( − 1 ) r ( n + r ) ! ( r ! ) 2 ( n − r ) ! 1 2 r {\displaystyle S_{n}=1+\sum _{1}^{n}(-1)^{r}{\frac {(n+r)!}{(r!)^{2}(n-r)!}}{\frac {1}{2^{r}}}} .
Derived terms
  • shew forth

Noun

shew (plural shews)

  1. Archaic spelling of show.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Homophones: shoe, shoo

Verb

shew

  1. (East Anglia) simple past of show

Etymology 3

Verb

shew (third-person singular simple present shews, present participle shewing, simple past and past participle shewed)

  1. Nonstandard spelling of shoo.

Anagrams

  • Hews, hews, wehs

Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛw/

Verb

shew

  1. third-person plural perfect of seha

Source: wiktionary.org