CUNNER is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CUNNER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CUNNER?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CUNNER is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CUNNER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CUNNER scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CUNNER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 137,969.
What does CUNNER mean in Scrabble?
noun
North Americanzoology
A small greenish-grey wrasse that lives along the rocky Atlantic coast of North America.
The cunner belongs to the wrasse family and is common in cool coastal waters from Labrador down to the Chesapeake Bay region, where anglers often catch it around rocks, pilings and wrecks. It is prized less for eating than for its role as bait-stealer, since it nibbles hooks and takes bait meant for larger fish, which is why some fishermen treat it as a nuisance rather than a catch. Older texts also use cunner for a small edible shellfish related to the limpet, though the fish sense is by far the more common one today.
How CUNNER is used
Mainly a regional angling term along the northeastern coast of North America, rare outside that context.
- The boy pulled a small cunner off the pier with a bent pin and a worm.
- Cunner gather thickly around the pilings at low tide.
- The guide warned that cunner would strip the bait before a real fish arrived.
- Local menus rarely list cunner, since most anglers throw the small fish back.
- A school of cunner darted between the rocks as the tide came in.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUNNER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CUNNER
1 longer words begin with CUNNER.
Shorter words from the letters in CUNNER
Common questions about CUNNER
- Is CUNNER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUNNER, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUNNER worth?
- CUNNER is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUNNER mean?
- A small greenish-grey wrasse that lives along the rocky Atlantic coast of North America.
- What letters can be added to CUNNER?
- CUNNER takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CUNNER:
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