BOUN is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. BOUN 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BOUN?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOUN is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOUN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOUN scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BOUN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,212.
What does BOUN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaic
Ready, prepared, or bound for a particular place or purpose.
Boun is an old form related to the modern word bound, as in a ship boun for a distant port. It appears mainly in archaic and dialect writing describing someone or something made ready to set out or act.
How BOUN is used
Archaic; found in older texts, ballads and dialect speech rather than modern standard English.
- The ship stood boun for the northern ports at first light.
- He declared himself boun to leave before the storm arrived.
- The old ballad tells of a knight boun for battle.
- Every sailor aboard was boun and eager to set sail.
- She wrote that the travellers were boun for home by nightfall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOUN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOUN
Showing 24 of 53 words that begin with BOUN.
Words with BOUN inside
Showing 24 of 93 words that contain BOUN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BOUN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BOUN
Common questions about BOUN
- Is BOUN valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BOUN is not in it.
- How many points is BOUN worth?
- BOUN is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOUN mean?
- Ready, prepared, or bound for a particular place or purpose.
- What letters can be added to BOUN?
- BOUN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BOUN:
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