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

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Y4A1W4

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3-letter words (2 found)

WAY,YAW,

2-letter words (3 found)

AW,AY,YA,

You can make 5 words from yaw according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of yaw

yaw ayw ywa wya awy way

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Definitions and meaning of yaw

yaw

Pronunciation

  • enPR: yô, IPA(key): /jɔː/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː
  • Homophones: yore, your, you're (some non-rhotic accents), y'all (with l-vocalization)

Etymology 1

Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).

Noun

yaw (plural yaws)

  1. The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
  2. The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
  3. (nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
  5. The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
    Coordinate terms: pitch, roll
Derived terms
  • adverse yaw
  • yaw damper
Translations

Verb

yaw (third-person singular simple present yaws, present participle yawing, simple past and past participle yawed)

  1. (intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
  2. (intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
  3. (intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
  4. (intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
Translations

See also

  • heading
  • pitch
  • roll
  • surge
  • scend

Etymology 2

Noun

yaw (plural yaws)

  1. A single tumor in the disease called yaws.

See also

Anagrams

  • 'way, Way, way, wya

Kalasha

Conjunction

yaw

  1. or

Synonyms

  • khoyo

Matal

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn. Cognate with Wandala yawe, Podoko yəwa, Moloko yàm, etc.

Noun

yaw

  1. water

References

  • Topics in Chadic linguistics 3, volume 3 (2007), page 56

Middle English

Pronoun

yaw

  1. Alternative form of yow

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *jaw (“market”). Cognate with Khasi ïew (“market”), taïew (“week”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jaw/

Noun

yaw

  1. market
  2. week

Turkish

  1. (internet slang) Alternative spelling of yav.

Source: wiktionary.org