BON is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. BON is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 5 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept BON?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BON is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 7 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BON
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How BON scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in BON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does BON mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Good — in English only inside phrases carried over whole from French, such as bon mot and bon voyage.
English borrowed the phrases and left the adjective sitting inside them: nobody orders a bon dinner, yet bon mot, bon vivant and bon voyage are ordinary enough to need no italics. That is why it behaves less like a word than like the first half of a fixed pair — it agrees with nothing, changes for nothing, and cannot be moved to another noun.
How BON is used
Never stands alone in English. The noun after it comes from French too — mot, vivant, voyage, ton.
- He ended the toast with a bon mot nobody quite caught.
- Her bon mots were repeated all week and improved with each telling.
- The card said bon voyage in gold letters and nothing else.
- A bon vivant of the old school, he knew every waiter by name.
- They wished us bon voyage and waved from the platform.
- The phrase bon ton went out with the century that used it.
- He collected other people's bon mots and passed them off as his own.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BON and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BON
The 3 tiles of BON in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BON
Showing 24 of 196 words that begin with BON.
Words ending in BON
11 words end in BON. Useful as a back hook: play BON onto a word already on the board.
Words with BON inside
Showing 24 of 315 words that contain BON somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BON are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BON
Common questions about BON
- Is BON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BON, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BON worth?
- BON is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BON mean?
- Good — in English only inside phrases carried over whole from French, such as bon mot and bon voyage.
- What letters can be added to BON?
- BON takes 7 hooks: 1 in front and 6 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of BON:
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