Is WHIST a word?
WHIST is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends, has 5 letters, and can be rearranged into 4 other words, plus 17 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, WHIST is a valid word.
What does whist mean?
noun: a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six.
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
WHIST: word details
- Length: 5 letters, a medium-length word. It is one of 12,578 5-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 11 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 10 points on the tiles.
- Wordle: five letters, so WHIST works as a Wordle guess or answer.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of whist
Shorter words inside whist
Words you can make from the letters of whist.
Solve a whole rack, not just WHIST
WHIST is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does WHIST mean?
WHIST is a noun. It means: a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six.
Is WHIST a valid word?
Yes, WHIST is a valid word. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.