DUN is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. DUN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DUN?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DUN is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DUN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DUN scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in DUN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does DUN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Of a dull greyish-brown colour.
Dun is also a verb meaning to press somebody for payment, and the two are unrelated: the colour is Old English and the debt sense is seventeenth-century with no known origin. A third dun is an Irish hill fort.
How DUN is used
Before the noun. Also a verb: dunned, dunning.
- A dun horse in a dun field is hard to count.
- They dunned him weekly for eleven pounds.
- The word dun covers a colour, a debt and a fort.
- Dun is Old English and the debt sense is not.
- Two dun ponies and one that refused to move.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DUN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DUN
The 3 tiles of DUN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with DUN
Showing 24 of 107 words that begin with DUN.
Words ending in DUN
3 words end in DUN. Useful as a back hook: play DUN onto a word already on the board.
Words with DUN inside
Showing 24 of 75 words that contain DUN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with DUN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DUN
Common questions about DUN
- Is DUN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DUN, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DUN worth?
- DUN is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DUN mean?
- Of a dull greyish-brown colour.
- What letters can be added to DUN?
- DUN takes 5 hooks: 0 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of DUN:
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