BONCE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. BONCE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BONCE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BONCE is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BONCE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
boncesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BONCE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BONCE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does BONCE mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritish
An informal British word for a person's head; also, historically, a large playing marble used in children's games.
A British speaker who bumps their bonce on a low doorway is simply saying, in a light, jokey way, that they hit their head, the word carrying none of the seriousness of a more clinical term. Older generations of English schoolchildren also used bonce for an oversized marble, prized in playground games for knocking smaller marbles out of a ring, a sense now largely forgotten outside dialect dictionaries. Both meanings likely share the same playful, rounded feel, since a bonce, whether head or marble, is simply something round. The word rarely appears outside informal British speech, and would sound distinctly out of place in careful or written English.
How BONCE is used
Informal, chiefly British; heard in casual speech for the head, and, in its older sense, among collectors of playground marbles.
- Mind your bonce on that low beam!
- He scratched his bonce, trying to remember the answer.
- A wool hat kept her bonce warm on the walk home.
- The old boy traded his best bonce for two smaller marbles.
- She tapped her bonce and said the idea had just come to her.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BONCE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BONCE
1 longer words begin with BONCE.
Shorter words from the letters in BONCE
Common questions about BONCE
- Is BONCE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BONCE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BONCE worth?
- BONCE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BONCE mean?
- An informal British word for a person's head; also, historically, a large playing marble used in children's games.
- What letters can be added to BONCE?
- BONCE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BONCE:
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