CRON is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. CRON 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 accept it.
Which word lists accept CRON?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CRON is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRON
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CRON scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CRON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,808.
What does CRON mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A program that runs other programs at set times on a computer.
Cron reads a table in which every line says when and what, and it has done so on Unix systems since the 1970s with very little change. Everything awkward about it lives in that table: five time fields in an order nobody remembers, and a failed job that quietly mails somebody and stops rather than raising an alarm.
How CRON is used
Uncountable as the system, countable as a job — a cron, two crons. The table itself is a crontab.
- The backup runs from cron at four in the morning.
- A cron that fails silently is worse than no cron at all.
- He added two crons and forgot to write them down.
- The whole schedule lives in cron and nowhere else.
- Cron will not tell you that the disk filled up.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CRON
The 4 tiles of CRON in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CRON
13 longer words begin with CRON.
Words ending in CRON
8 words end in CRON. Useful as a back hook: play CRON onto a word already on the board.
Words with CRON inside
Showing 24 of 56 words that contain CRON somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CRON are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CRON
Common questions about CRON
- Is CRON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CRON, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CRON worth?
- CRON is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRON mean?
- A program that runs other programs at set times on a computer.
- What letters can be added to CRON?
- CRON takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CRON:
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