DUNAM is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. DUNAM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DUNAM?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DUNAM is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DUNAM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
dunamsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DUNAM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DUNAM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What stands out about DUNAM
- The same 5 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 DUNAM mean in Scrabble?
noun
regional
A unit of land area, roughly one thousand square metres, used in Turkey, Israel and other parts of the former Ottoman Empire.
A dunam has been used since Ottoman times to record the size of farmland, orchards and building plots, and its exact size has drifted a little from one country to another over the centuries. The dunam remains part of everyday land dealings in places such as Israel, the Palestinian territories, Turkey and parts of the Balkans, alongside or instead of the metric hectare. The word entered English through Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from an older unit tied to the area a pair of oxen could plough in a day.
How DUNAM is used
Regional term, used mainly in and about the Middle East and parts of the former Ottoman world.
- The farm covered about twenty dunams of land.
- Local records still measure plots in dunams rather than hectares.
- The dispute concerned a strip of land only a few dunams wide.
- Officials converted the dunam figures into hectares for the report.
- Olive groves in the valley are usually sold by the dunam.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DUNAM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DUNAM
The 5 tiles of DUNAM in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with DUNAM
1 longer words begin with DUNAM.
Shorter words from the letters in DUNAM
Common questions about DUNAM
- Is DUNAM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DUNAM, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DUNAM worth?
- DUNAM is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DUNAM mean?
- A unit of land area, roughly one thousand square metres, used in Turkey, Israel and other parts of the former Ottoman Empire.
- What letters can be added to DUNAM?
- DUNAM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DUNAM:
Open DUNAM in the Word Finder