FLAWN is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. FLAWN 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FLAWN?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FLAWN is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FLAWN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
flawnsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FLAWN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FLAWN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does FLAWN mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
An old flat pastry or tart filled with a custard-like mixture.
A flawn was baked in a shallow open crust, closer to a modern custard tart than to a deep pie, and the word travelled through several spellings (flan, flaune) before English settled on flan for the same idea. It survives now mainly in glossaries of old cookery and in word lists, not in everyday kitchen speech.
How FLAWN is used
Archaic; found in older recipe books and dictionaries rather than in modern cooking talk.
- The cook set a warm flawn on the table beside the bread.
- Old recipe books describe a flawn as a custard baked in a pastry shell.
- She called the dessert a flawn, using the word her grandmother had used.
- A flawn differs from a modern flan mainly in name, not in method.
- The museum kitchen display explained what a flawn once was.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FLAWN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FLAWN
1 longer words begin with FLAWN.
Shorter words from the letters in FLAWN
Common questions about FLAWN
- Is FLAWN valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FLAWN is not in it.
- How many points is FLAWN worth?
- FLAWN is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FLAWN mean?
- An old flat pastry or tart filled with a custard-like mixture.
- What letters can be added to FLAWN?
- FLAWN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FLAWN:
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