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Yes. The word wasp is a Scrabble US word. The word wasp is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (5 found)

PAWS,SPAW,SWAP,WAPS,WASP,

3-letter words (8 found)

ASP,PAS,PAW,SAP,SAW,SPA,WAP,WAS,

2-letter words (3 found)

AS,AW,PA,

You can make 16 words from wasp according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of wasp

wasp

English

Alternative forms

  • waps

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɒsp/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /wɑsp/
  • (African-American Vernacular) IPA(key): /waps/ (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /wæsp/
  • Rhymes: -ɒsp

Etymology 1

    Inherited from Middle English wasp, waspe, waps, from Old English wæsp, wæps, from Proto-West Germanic *wapsu, from Proto-Germanic *wapsō, from Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”), referring to the insect's woven nests.

    Compare Dutch wesp, German Wespe, Danish hveps. Metathesis of /s/ and /p/ was both a process of some generality within English (compare grasp from Middle English grapsen, and—affecting other plosives—ascian ~ acsian (“to ask”)) and common in the reflexes of *wóps-eh₂ (“wasp”) in particular, as the aforementioned Germanic cognates (and non-Germanic cognates like Latin vespa) evince.

    Noun

    wasp (plural wasps)

    2. Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
    4. (entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
      2. Any of the members of the family Vespidae.
    6. A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspishly.
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • ⇒ Sranan Tongo: waswasi
    Translations

    Verb

    wasp (third-person singular simple present wasps, present participle wasping, simple past and past participle wasped)

    1. To move like a wasp; to buzz
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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    wasp (plural wasps)

    1. Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“white Anglo-Saxon Protestant”).
    Derived terms

    References

    Anagrams

    • WSPA, Spaw, spaw, WAPs, paws, APWs, PWAs, waps, AWPs, waps., PAWS, swap

    Middle English

    Alternative forms

    • wappes, waps, waspe

    Etymology

      Inherited from Old English wæps, wæsp; from Proto-West Germanic *wapsu, from Proto-Germanic *wapsō, from Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /wasp/

      Noun

      wasp (plural waspes)

      1. wasp

      Descendants

      References

      • “wasp, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.

      Source: wiktionary.org