ADOWN is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. ADOWN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ADOWN?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ADOWN is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ADOWN
No single letter turns ADOWN into another word.
How ADOWN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ADOWN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does ADOWN mean in Scrabble?
adverb
archaicliterarypoetic
An archaic and poetic word meaning downward, down, or to the ground, often used with verbs of motion such as fall, sink or kneel.
Poets and older prose writers reached for adown where a modern writer would simply write down, gaining an extra unstressed syllable that could smooth out the rhythm of a line of verse. A knight in an old romance might sink adown upon one knee, or tears might fall adown a mourner's face, the word adding a slightly formal, elevated tone to an ordinary downward motion. English speakers largely abandoned adown in everyday speech centuries ago, so a modern reader meets it almost exclusively in older poetry, ballads and deliberately archaic historical fiction. The word still occasionally appears in fantasy or historical writing today, precisely because its old-fashioned sound signals a distant, storybook setting.
How ADOWN is used
Archaic and poetic; encountered mainly in older verse, ballads and writing that deliberately imitates an earlier, elevated style.
- Tears fell adown her cheeks as she read the letter.
- The knight sank slowly adown upon one knee before the queen.
- The old ballad tells how the hero climbed adown the cliff.
- A single leaf drifted adown from the highest branch.
- The poet describes the river winding adown through the valley.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ADOWN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ADOWN
The 5 tiles of ADOWN in a different order — 1 found.
Words with ADOWN inside
1 words contain ADOWN in the middle. Words that start with ADOWN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ADOWN
Common questions about ADOWN
- Is ADOWN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ADOWN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ADOWN worth?
- ADOWN is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ADOWN mean?
- An archaic and poetic word meaning downward, down, or to the ground, often used with verbs of motion such as fall, sink or kneel.
- What letters can be added to ADOWN?
- No single letter can be added to ADOWN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ADOWN:
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