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Is how a Scrabble word?

Yes, how is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of how?

Definition

adv (English)

1. (interrogative) To what degree or extent.Examples: "How often do you practice?"; "The gauge indicated how hot the oven was."; "How soon can I see the doctor?"interrogativenot-comparable

2. (interrogative) In what manner:Examples: "Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it."interrogativenot-comparable

3. (interrogative) In what manner:Examples: "How do you solve this puzzle?"; "How else can we get this finished?"; "She showed him how to do it."interrogativenot-comparable

4. (interrogative) In what manner:Examples: "How should I know whether he likes raisins or not? Ask him!"interrogativenot-comparable

5. (interrogative) In what manner:Examples: "People should be free to live how they want."interrogativenot-comparable

6. (interrogative) In what manner:Examples: "How do you sell your brandy? We sell it by the gallon, and not by the bottle."; "How does God appear in these religions? Hinduism has a thousand faces for God, some likable, some horrible. You can pick and choose your preferred image. Buddhism does not even have an image of God, but concentrates on man."interrogativenot-comparable

conj (English)

1. (informal) That, the fact that.Examples: "She told me how her father was a doctor."; "“There’s this real Al Capone fear that they’re going to get our guys, not on marijuana, but on something else,” Mr. Edson said, referring to how Capone was eventually charged with tax evasion rather than criminal activity."informal

noun (English)

1. (dialectal) An artificial barrow or tumulus; in later folklore, associated with fairies.Examples: "Fianlly, as regards the places in which these rites and mysteries may have been held, certain writers believe them to have been the "Fairy Hills" or "howes" in various parts of Scotland."; "The fairy feast inside the howe (and this barrow is hill-sized) reminds one of nothing so much as a tale in the Icelandic Eyrbyggia saga, written in the mid thirteenth century."; "Then, the story goes, a certain man plundered the hoard in that immemorial howe[.]"dialectal

2. (dialectal) In northern England, a low hill.dialectal

noun (English)

1. (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter H.Synonyms: Hotel

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "how"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "how"?

Scrabble
9 points
H4
O1
W4
Words With Friends
8 points
H3
O1
W4

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