DOEN is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. DOEN 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 5 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DOEN?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOEN is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOEN
No single letter turns DOEN into another word.
How DOEN scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in DOEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,702.
What stands out about DOEN
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DOEN mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To do, act, or carry out something, in an old third-person plural form once written they doen where a modern writer would put they do.
Doen appears in Spenser and other early English poetry where a modern writer would simply write do or does. It marks the verb the way old grammar marked plural agreement, and it now survives only in quotations from that older poetic language.
How DOEN is used
Archaic and literary; met only in older poetry, especially Spenser, not in modern speech.
- The knights, as olde bookes doen record, rode forth at dawn.
- Editors note that 'they doen' meant simply 'they do' in Spenser's time.
- The old verse reads 'the shepherds doen their flocks safely fold.'
- A footnote explained that doen was an archaic plural of do.
- Students stumbled over doen when reading the original stanzas aloud.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DOEN
The 4 tiles of DOEN in a different order — 2 found.
Words with DOEN inside
2 words contain DOEN in the middle. Words that start with DOEN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DOEN
Common questions about DOEN
- Is DOEN valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DOEN is not in it.
- How many points is DOEN worth?
- DOEN is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOEN mean?
- To do, act, or carry out something, in an old third-person plural form once written they doen where a modern writer would put they do.
- What letters can be added to DOEN?
- No single letter can be added to DOEN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of DOEN:
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