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What does wisp mean? Is wisp a Scrabble word?

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Is wisp a Scrabble word?

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

W4I1S1P3

Is wisp a Scrabble UK word?

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

W4I1S1P3

Is wisp a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word wisp is a Words With Friends word. The word wisp is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

W4I1S1P4

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4-letter words (1 found)

WISP,

3-letter words (4 found)

PIS,PSI,SIP,WIS,

2-letter words (3 found)

IS,PI,SI,

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

All 4 letters words made out of wisp

wisp iwsp wsip swip iswp siwp wips iwps wpis pwis ipws piws wspi swpi wpsi pwsi spwi pswi ispw sipw ipsw pisw spiw psiw

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

Definitions and meaning of wisp

wisp

Etymology

From Middle English wispe, wyspe, wips, wipse, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *wisp, *wips. Cognate with West Frisian wisp, Dutch wisp (“bundle of hay or straw”), Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp (“handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc.”). Akin also to Middle Dutch/Middle Low German wispel (“measure of grain”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɪsp/
  • Rhymes: -ɪsp

Noun

wisp (countable and uncountable, plural wisps)

  1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
    A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.
    A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind.
  2. A whisk, or small broom.
  3. A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
  4. An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
  5. (archaic) A flock of snipe.
  6. (uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.

Derived terms

  • will o' the wisp

Translations

Verb

wisp (third-person singular simple present wisps, present participle wisping, simple past and past participle wisped)

  1. (transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
  2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple.
  3. (intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
  4. (transitive) To emit in wisps.

Anagrams

  • PWIs, WIPs

Middle English

Noun

wisp

  1. Alternative form of wyspe

Source: wiktionary.org