FOUNT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. FOUNT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FOUNT?
| 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 FOUNT is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FOUNT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fountsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FOUNT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FOUNT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does FOUNT mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A spring or natural source from which water flows, or, more broadly, the origin from which something abstract, such as knowledge or wisdom, seems to flow.
A writer who calls a person a fount of wisdom means that useful ideas seem to flow from them steadily, much as water flows from a natural spring. This figurative use is now far more common than the literal sense of an actual spring or fountain, which survives mainly in older or poetic writing. In British printing, fount also names a complete set of type of one design and size, an entirely separate meaning closer to the American spelling font. Because fount sounds slightly old-fashioned, it tends to appear in formal, literary, or deliberately elevated writing rather than casual speech.
How FOUNT is used
Chiefly literary in the figurative sense of a source; the printing sense is a specifically British technical term.
- The old professor was a fount of obscure historical facts.
- Pilgrims once drank from the fount beside the shrine.
- Her grandmother remained a fount of family stories until she died.
- The printer selected an elegant fount for the title page.
- He treated the encyclopedia as his personal fount of knowledge.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FOUNT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FOUNT
The 5 tiles of FOUNT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with FOUNT
9 longer words begin with FOUNT.
Shorter words from the letters in FOUNT
Common questions about FOUNT
- Is FOUNT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FOUNT, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FOUNT worth?
- FOUNT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FOUNT mean?
- A spring or natural source from which water flows, or, more broadly, the origin from which something abstract, such as knowledge or wisdom, seems to flow.
- What letters can be added to FOUNT?
- FOUNT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FOUNT:
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