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Is wasp a Scrabble word?

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

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Is wasp a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word wasp is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

W4A1S1P3

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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.

All 4 letters words made out of wasp

wasp awsp wsap swap aswp sawp waps awps wpas pwas apws paws wspa swpa wpsa pwsa spwa pswa aspw sapw apsw pasw spaw psaw

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Definitions and meaning of wasp

wasp

Alternative forms

  • waps

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɒsp/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /wɑsp/
  • (AAVE) IPA(key): /waps/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /wæsp/
  • Rhymes: -ɒsp

Etymology 1

From Middle English wasp, waspe, waps, from Old English wæsp, wæps (“wasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *wapsu, from Proto-Germanic *wapsō, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“weave”) (referring to the insect's woven nests).

Compare Dutch wesp, German Wespe, Danish hveps. The metathesis of s and p reflects a process of some generality in Old English, cf. ascian ~ acsian (“to ask”); here, Latin vespa (“wasp”) (also a cognate- cf. Old French wespe) may have helped tilt the scales in favour of -sp.

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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 (reduplicated)
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
Derived terms

See also

  • bee
  • hornet

Etymology 2

Noun

wasp (plural wasps)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“white Anglo-Saxon Protestant”)
Derived terms
  • waspy, waspish, waspishly, waspishness

References

Anagrams

  • APWs, AWPs, WAPs, WSPA, paws, spaw, swap, waps

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • wappes, waps, waspe

Etymology

From Old English wæps, wæsp, from Proto-West Germanic *wapsu, from Proto-Germanic *wapsō, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰséh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wasp/

Noun

wasp (plural waspes)

  1. wasp

Descendants

  • English: wasp, waps
    • Sranan Tongo: waswasi (reduplicated)
  • Scots: wasp, wesp

References

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

Source: wiktionary.org