ORPHAN is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ORPHAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ORPHAN?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ORPHAN is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ORPHAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
orphansChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ORPHAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ORPHAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does ORPHAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
A child whose parents have both died.
The word came into English from Greek by way of Latin and has long carried an emotional weight of loss and vulnerability. It is also used for a young animal left without its mother, and printers use it for the first line of a paragraph stranded alone at the foot of a page. Software people borrow it too, calling a record with no parent an orphan.
How ORPHAN is used
Common in everyday English; the printing and computing senses are technical.
- The orphan was raised by an aunt in a seaside town.
- Volunteers bottle-fed the orphan lamb through the winter.
- The editor fixed the orphan at the bottom of the page.
- Dickens made the orphan a central figure of his novels.
- An orphan file is one that nothing else points to.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ORPHAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ORPHAN
9 longer words begin with ORPHAN.
Shorter words from the letters in ORPHAN
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Common questions about ORPHAN
- Is ORPHAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ORPHAN, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ORPHAN worth?
- ORPHAN is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ORPHAN mean?
- A child whose parents have both died.
- What letters can be added to ORPHAN?
- ORPHAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ORPHAN:
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