FOYNE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. FOYNE 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 FOYNE?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FOYNE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FOYNE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FOYNE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FOYNE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does FOYNE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To thrust or jab with a pointed weapon such as a spear or sword.
Foyne describes a stabbing, forward strike rather than a slashing one, the kind of blow made with the point of a blade in old fencing and combat writing. It is a variant of foin, and both forms belong to older English rather than to modern fencing terminology, which now speaks simply of a thrust or lunge.
How FOYNE is used
Obsolete, met chiefly in older fencing manuals and early literature.
- The swordsman would foyne rather than swing his blade.
- An old manual teaches the pupil to foyne with the rapier.
- The chronicle describes how he did foyne at his foe.
- To foyne well took a steadier hand than to slash.
- The fencing master corrected the way the boy tried to foyne.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FOYNE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FOYNE
2 longer words begin with FOYNE.
Shorter words from the letters in FOYNE
Common questions about FOYNE
- Is FOYNE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FOYNE is not in it.
- How many points is FOYNE worth?
- FOYNE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FOYNE mean?
- To thrust or jab with a pointed weapon such as a spear or sword.
- What letters can be added to FOYNE?
- FOYNE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FOYNE:
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