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Is strew a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word strew is a Scrabble US word. The word strew is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is strew a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word strew is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Is strew a Words With Friends word?

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

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5-letter words (3 found)

STREW,TREWS,WREST,

4-letter words (12 found)

ERST,EWTS,REST,RETS,REWS,STEW,TEWS,TRES,TREW,WERT,WEST,WETS,

3-letter words (12 found)

ERS,EST,EWT,RES,RET,REW,SER,SET,SEW,TES,TEW,WET,

2-letter words (8 found)

ER,ES,ET,EW,RE,ST,TE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 36 words from strew according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of strew

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

Definitions and meaning of strew

strew

Alternative forms

  • strow, straw (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English strewen, strawen, streowen, from Old English strewian, strēawian, strēowian (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-West Germanic *strauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *strawjaną (“to strew”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, scatter”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /stɹuː/　
  • (US) IPA(key): /stɹu/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Verb

strew (third-person singular simple present strews, present participle strewing, simple past strewed, past participle strewn or strewed)

  1. (dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
  2. (archaic) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
  3. (transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate.
  4. To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.

Synonyms

  • scatter, sprinkle

Derived terms

  • bestrew
  • strewable
  • strewage
  • strewments
  • strewnfield

Related terms

  • strain
  • streusel

Translations

Anagrams

  • Trews, trews, werst, wrest

Middle English

Noun

strew

  1. Alternative form of straw

Yola

Noun

strew

  1. Alternative form of stre

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 70

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