thwart is a valid English word

Scrabble validity: valid ( international - Sowpods, US - Twl06 )
iScramble validity: valid
QuickWords validity: valid

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Meanings

Adjective (COMPARABLE)

Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
(figuratively dated) Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.
• Synonyms: cross-grained, froward, Thesaurus:obstinate
(figuratively dated) Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.
• Synonyms: unpropitious, untoward, Thesaurus:unlucky

Adverb (NOT COMPARABLE)

(obsolete) Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.

Preposition

(archaic or poetic) Across, athwart.

Verb

(transitive) To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
• Synonyms: balk#Verb, foil#Verb_2, spoil
(transitive obsolete) To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
(transitive also figuratively obsolete) To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
• Synonyms: Thesaurus:hinder

Noun (COUNTABLE)

(nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
• Synonyms: thaught, thawt, thoft
(nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
• A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.
(rare) An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.

thwart is a Scrabble valid word

• International English (Sowpods) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• US English (TWL06) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• 12 points

thwart is an iScramble valid word

• The word is valid in iScramble ✓
• 21 points

thwart is an QuickWords valid word

• The word is valid in QuickWords ✓
• 21 points

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Same letters words (Anagrams)

• none

Same letters plus one

• ATHWART
• THWARTS
• THWARTY

Same letters minus one

• HARTT
• HATTR
• THART
• THAWT
• WARTH
• WRATH