FRONS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. FRONS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FRONS?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FRONS is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FRONS
No single letter turns FRONS into another word.
How FRONS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FRONS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does FRONS mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologytechnical
The forehead, or, in insects and related arthropods, the front plate of the head between the eyes and above the mouthparts.
In human and animal anatomy, frons is simply the technical Latin name for the forehead, the region of the skull between the eye sockets and the crown of the head. Entomologists borrow the same word for a distinct region on an insect's head, a hardened plate called the frons that sits between the compound eyes and above the clypeus near the mouth. Because insects lack a forehead in the mammalian sense, the frons instead serves as a fixed landmark that researchers use to describe the position of antennae, ocelli, and other small structures. Field guides and anatomy textbooks alike rely on frons as a precise term where an everyday word like forehead would be too vague.
How FRONS is used
A technical anatomical term, used in both human anatomy and entomology rather than in everyday speech.
- The textbook diagram labeled the frons just above the eye sockets.
- Entomologists measured the width of the beetle's frons.
- A pair of antennae emerged from the insect's frons.
- The fossil skull showed damage across the frons.
- Researchers used the frons to distinguish the two closely related species.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FRONS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in FRONS
4 words end in FRONS. Useful as a back hook: play FRONS onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in FRONS
Common questions about FRONS
- Is FRONS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FRONS, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FRONS worth?
- FRONS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FRONS mean?
- The forehead, or, in insects and related arthropods, the front plate of the head between the eyes and above the mouthparts.
- What letters can be added to FRONS?
- No single letter can be added to FRONS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FRONS:
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