How many points in Scrabble is why worth? why how many points in Words With Friends? What does why mean? Get all these answers on this page.
See how to calculate how many points for why.
Is why a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word why is a Scrabble US word. The word why is worth 12 points in Scrabble:
W4H4Y4
Is why a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word why is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:
W4H4Y4
Is why a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word why is a Words With Friends word. The word why is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
W4H3Y3
You can make 1 words from why according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
why hwy wyh ywh hyw yhw
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word why. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in why.
From Middle English why, from Old English hwȳ (“why”), from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“by what, how”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey, instrumental case of *kʷis (“who”), *kʷid (“what”).
Cognate with Old Saxon hwī (“why”), hwiu (“how; why”), Middle High German wiu (“how, why”), archaic Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hvi (“why”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvi (“why”), Swedish vi (“why”), Faroese and Icelandic hví (“why”), Latin quī (“why”), Doric Greek πεῖ (peî, “where”), Ukrainian чи (čy, “if”), Polish czy, Czech či (“or”), Serbo-Croatian či (“if”). Compare Old English þȳ (“because, since, on that account, therefore, then”, literally “by that, for that”). See thy.
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From Proto-Celtic *swīs (compare Breton c’hwi, Welsh chi, Old Irish síi), from Proto-Indo-European *wos.
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