PUNISH is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. PUNISH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PUNISH?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PUNISH is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PUNISH
No single letter turns PUNISH into another word.
How PUNISH scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PUNISH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 344,923.
What does PUNISH mean in Scrabble?
verb
To make someone suffer a penalty for a fault, crime or breach of rules.
Parents, teachers, courts and employers all punish, though the penalty ranges from a lost privilege to a prison term. The word also stretches to rough treatment that is not deliberate, as when a hard schedule is said to punish the body. It reached English from Old French and ultimately from Latin poena, meaning penalty.
How PUNISH is used
Takes a person as its object and often the offence after for.
- The school will punish anyone caught cheating in the exam.
- Courts punish fraud with fines and sometimes with prison.
- It seemed unfair to punish the whole class for one prank.
- The steep hill seemed to punish every cyclist in the race.
- She tried never to punish a child in anger.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PUNISH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PUNISH
The 6 tiles of PUNISH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PUNISH
11 longer words begin with PUNISH.
Shorter words from the letters in PUNISH
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Common questions about PUNISH
- Is PUNISH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PUNISH, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PUNISH worth?
- PUNISH is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PUNISH mean?
- To make someone suffer a penalty for a fault, crime or breach of rules.
- What letters can be added to PUNISH?
- No single letter can be added to PUNISH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PUNISH:
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