ASCON is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ASCON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ASCON?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ASCON is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ASCON
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ASCON scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ASCON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does ASCON mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A sponge, or the type of sponge body plan, having the simplest possible structure: a thin wall around one central cavity, with no folding of the surface.
In an ascon sponge, water is drawn straight through pores in a single thin wall into one large internal chamber lined with the feeding cells, then pushed back out through a single opening at the top. This is the simplest of the three basic sponge body plans recognised by zoologists, the other two being more folded and better suited to larger bodies. Because the ascon design limits how much water can be filtered relative to body size, sponges built this way tend to stay small.
How ASCON is used
A technical zoological term, met mainly in textbooks describing the body plans of simple sponges.
- Zoology textbooks use the ascon plan to introduce the simplest sponge body.
- An ascon sponge draws water through its wall into a single central chamber.
- Because of its small size, an ascon rarely grows beyond a few centimetres.
- The diagram compared an ascon with the more folded sponge body plans.
- Students learn to recognise an ascon by its thin, unfolded wall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ASCON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ASCON
The 5 tiles of ASCON in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ASCON
3 longer words begin with ASCON.
Words ending in ASCON
2 words end in ASCON. Useful as a back hook: play ASCON onto a word already on the board.
Words with ASCON inside
10 words contain ASCON in the middle. Words that start with ASCON are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ASCON
Common questions about ASCON
- Is ASCON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ASCON, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ASCON worth?
- ASCON is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ASCON mean?
- A sponge, or the type of sponge body plan, having the simplest possible structure: a thin wall around one central cavity, with no folding of the surface.
- What letters can be added to ASCON?
- ASCON takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ASCON:
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