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DEWS

4 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What DEWS Means

DEWS is a form of DEW, which means:

  1. noun: water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air“in the morning the grass was wet with dew”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DEWS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 W4 S1.

Anagrams of DEWS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In DEWS

9 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

3 letter words (5)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing DEWS

DEWS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.