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Is wish a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word wish is a Scrabble US word. The word wish is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is wish a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word wish is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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Yes. The word wish is a Words With Friends word. The word wish is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

WISH,

3-letter words (3 found)

HIS,ISH,WIS,

2-letter words (4 found)

HI,IS,SH,SI,

You can make 8 words from wish according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of wish

wish iwsh wsih swih iswh siwh wihs iwhs whis hwis ihws hiws wshi swhi whsi hwsi shwi hswi ishw sihw ihsw hisw shiw hsiw

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

Definitions and meaning of wish

wish

Etymology

From Middle English wisshen, wischen, wüschen, from Old English wȳsċan (“to wish”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunskijan, from Proto-Germanic *wunskijaną (“to wish”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”).

Cognate with Scots wis (“to wish”), Saterland Frisian wonskje (“to wish”), West Frisian winskje (“to wish”), Dutch wensen (“to wish”), German wünschen (“to wish”), Danish ønske (“to wish”), Icelandic æskja, óska (“to wish”), Latin Venus, veneror (“venerate, honour, love”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wĭsh, IPA(key): /wɪʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪʃ
  • Homophone: whish (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wish (plural wishes)

  1. A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
    have a wish
    make someone's wish come true
  2. An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power.
    make a wish
  3. The thing desired or longed for.
  4. (Sussex) A water meadow.

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See also

  • precatory
  • velleity

Verb

wish (third-person singular simple present wishes, present participle wishing, simple past and past participle wished)

  1. (transitive) To desire; to want.
  2. (transitive, now rare) To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive).
    • 1808, Jane Austen, letter, 1 October:
      She hears that Miss Bigg is to be married in a fortnight. I wish it may be so.
  3. (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
    I wish I could go back in time and teach myself what I know now.
  4. (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
  5. (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
  6. (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.

Usage notes

  • In sense 4, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

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References

  • “wish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “wish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Etymology

From Middle English vish, from Old English fisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɪʃ/

Noun

wish

  1. fish

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 78

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