1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Whither in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does whither mean? Is whither a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is whither worth? whither how many points in Words With Friends? What does whither mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for whither

See how to calculate how many points for whither.

Is whither a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word whither is a Scrabble US word. The word whither is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

W4H4I1T1H4E1R1

Is whither a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word whither is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

W4H4I1T1H4E1R1

Is whither a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word whither is a Words With Friends word. The word whither is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

W4H3I1T1H3E1R1

Our tools

Valid words made from Whither

Jump to...

Results

7-letter words (1 found)

WHITHER,

6-letter words (4 found)

HITHER,WHITER,WITHER,WRITHE,

5-letter words (10 found)

HITHE,ITHER,REWTH,THEIR,THREW,TWIER,TWIRE,WHITE,WITHE,WRITE,

4-letter words (20 found)

HEIR,HETH,HIRE,RITE,TEHR,THEW,THIR,TIER,TIRE,TREW,TRIE,WEIR,WERT,WHET,WHIR,WHIT,WIRE,WITE,WITH,WRIT,

3-letter words (19 found)

ETH,EWT,HEH,HER,HET,HEW,HIE,HIT,IRE,REH,REI,RET,REW,RIT,TEW,THE,TIE,WET,WIT,

2-letter words (11 found)

EH,ER,ET,EW,HE,HI,IT,RE,TE,TI,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 66 words from whither according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of whither

whither

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɪðə/
  • (General American) enPR: wĭthʹər, IPA(key): /ˈwɪðəɹ/
  • (in accents without the wine-whine merger) IPA(key): /ˈʍɪðə/, /ˈʍɪðəɹ/
  • Homophone: wither (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
  • Rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: whi‧ther

Etymology 1

From Middle English whider (“to what place?; into or to which; to what place, where; no matter where, to wherever”), from Old English hwider, hwæder (“to what place, where”), from Proto-Germanic *hwadrê (“to what place, where”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos (“what; which”), from *kʷ- (the primary interrogative root).

Adverb

whither (not comparable) (formal, archaic except literary or poetic)

  1. Interrogative senses.
    1. To what place; where.
      Antonym: whence
    2. (figurative, also humorous) To what (future) cause, condition or state, reason, etc.; where, where next; also (obsolete) to what extent; how far.
  2. Relative senses.
    1. To which place; also (after a noun denoting a place) to which.
    2. To the place in or to which.
    3. (generally) In or to any place to which; to whatever place; wherever.
      Synonym: (archaic) whithersoever
Usage notes
  • Not to be confused with whether or wither.
  • Compare the relative adverb whereto.
Derived terms
Translations
See also

Use the following table to determine which adverb to use in a given context. For example, the word hither can be used to mean “to here”, and whence to mean “from where”.

Noun

whither (plural whithers)

  1. (formal, archaic except literary or poetic) A place to which someone or something goes; also, a condition to which someone or something moves.
Translations

Etymology 2

The verb is borrowed from Scots whidder, whither (“(of the wind) to bluster; to move quickly”), a frequentative form of whid (“(of wind) to gust; to move quickly”), of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hviða (“gust of wind”).

Related to Middle English hwiþa, whyȝt (“breeze; wind”), Old English hwiþa, hwiþu, hweoþu (“breeze”). The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

whither (third-person singular simple present whithers, present participle whithering, simple past and past participle whithered) (British, dialectal, especially Scotland)

  1. (transitive)
    1. To cause (someone) to hurry; to hasten, to hurry.
    2. To throw (something) forcefully; to hurl; also, to beat, to thrash.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. To shake (vigorously); to tremble.
    2. To move quickly, to rush, to whiz; also, to make a rushing sound; to whizz.
    3. Of the wind: to blow loudly and vigorously; to bluster; also, of an animal, etc.: to make a loud noise; to bellow, to roar.
Alternative forms
  • wuther
Translations

Noun

whither (plural whithers) (British, dialectal, especially Scotland)

  1. A state of rushed action; a haste, a hurry; also, a state of anger or excitement.
  2. A forceful blow or hit.
  3. An act of shaking (vigorously); a shiver, a tremble; also, a slight bout of discomfort or illness.
  4. The sound of something moving quickly; a rush, a whiz.
  5. A gust of wind; a bluster.
Alternative forms
  • wuther
Translations

References

Further reading

  • Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “WHITHER, v., sb.2 and adj.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes VI (T–Z, Supplement, Bibliography and Grammar), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 475–476.

Source: wiktionary.org