DON is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. DON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DON?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DON is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DON
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DON scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in DON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 842.
What does DON mean in Scrabble?
noun
A university teacher, especially at the two oldest English universities.
Don is Spanish for a lord and reached English as a title of respect before narrowing to those two institutions alone. The criminal sense arrived separately through Italian and is a different borrowing of the same Latin word.
How DON is used
Countable. Also a verb meaning to put on clothing.
- A don at that college teaches eight students a week.
- The word don is Spanish for a lord.
- He donned the gown and looked uncomfortable in it.
- The criminal don and the academic don are separate borrowings.
- Two dons disagreeing in print is a college tradition.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DON
The 3 tiles of DON in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with DON
Showing 24 of 112 words that begin with DON.
Words ending in DON
Showing 24 of 49 words that end in DON. Useful as a back hook: play DON onto a word already on the board.
Words with DON inside
Showing 24 of 405 words that contain DON somewhere in the middle. Words that start with DON are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DON
Common questions about DON
- Is DON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DON, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DON worth?
- DON is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DON mean?
- A university teacher, especially at the two oldest English universities.
- What letters can be added to DON?
- DON takes 5 hooks: 1 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of DON:
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