Tawses
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Plural of tawse, referring to the leather straps formerly used in Scottish schools as instruments of corporal punishment.
“The old schoolroom display included a pair of tawses as artefacts of a harsher educational era.”
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Contains W in position 3, ends in -ES, A and E as the vowels, S appears in positions 4 and 6
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Worth 9 points, W adds 4 points and the double S is manageable given the high W value
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