Is NEW a Scrabble word?
Yes. NEW is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends.
Meaning Recently made, or created.
Adjective 4 meanings
Recently made, or created.
“This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.”
Additional; recently discovered.
“We turned up some new evidence from the old files.”
Current or later, as opposed to former.
“My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older. We had been in our new house for five years by then.”
Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
“New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.”
Adverb 2 meanings
Synonym of newly, especially in composition.
“Near-synonym: recently”
As new; from scratch.
“They are scraping the site clean to build new.”
Noun 2 meanings
Things that are new.
“Out with the old, in with the new.”
A typically light-coloured lager brewed by the bottom-fermentation method.
Verb 1 meaning
Synonym of new up.
Etymology
From Middle English neowe, neue, new, newe, nywe, from Old English nēowe, nīewe, nīowe, nīwe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz (“new”), from Proto-Indo-European *néwos, *néwyos (“new”). Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo, novuss, and neo-.
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NEW at a glance
NEW has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (N 1 + E 1 + W 4) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #64 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -NEW
More endings- KNEW11
- RENEW8
- ANEW7
- SINEW8
- FOREKNEW18
- UNSINEW10
- OVERNEW13
- ACKNEW15
- ENEW7
- INSINEW10
- MISKNEW16
- VINEW11
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