DAUNT is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. DAUNT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DAUNT?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DAUNT is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DAUNT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
dauntsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DAUNT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DAUNT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does DAUNT mean in Scrabble?
verb
To make someone feel afraid, discouraged, or intimidated, especially by the size or difficulty of a task.
People most often meet daunt in its passive or adjective form, as in feeling daunted by a project, rather than in a plain active sentence. The word traces back through French to a Latin root meaning to tame or subdue, which is also behind dominate, so daunting something originally meant breaking its resistance rather than merely frightening it. The set phrase nothing daunted, meaning undiscouraged, keeps an older grammatical pattern alive in modern writing.
How DAUNT is used
Common in everyday and literary writing, most often as the adjective daunted or in the phrase nothing daunted.
- The size of the mountain did not daunt the climbers.
- She refused to let one failure daunt her.
- A blank page can daunt even an experienced writer.
- Nothing seemed to daunt him, not even the storm.
- The exam schedule was enough to daunt any student.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DAUNT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DAUNT
14 longer words begin with DAUNT.
Words ending in DAUNT
1 words end in DAUNT. Useful as a back hook: play DAUNT onto a word already on the board.
Words with DAUNT inside
7 words contain DAUNT in the middle. Words that start with DAUNT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DAUNT
Common questions about DAUNT
- Is DAUNT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DAUNT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DAUNT worth?
- DAUNT is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DAUNT mean?
- To make someone feel afraid, discouraged, or intimidated, especially by the size or difficulty of a task.
- What letters can be added to DAUNT?
- DAUNT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DAUNT:
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