HORNBOOK is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. HORNBOOK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HORNBOOK?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HORNBOOK is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HORNBOOK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
hornbooksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HORNBOOK scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in HORNBOOK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 3 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HORNBOOK has to be built on the board across turns.
What does HORNBOOK mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A child's first reading primer, a wooden paddle bearing a printed alphabet under a thin transparent sheet of horn.
Children in earlier centuries learned letters and prayers from the hornbook, which was small enough to hang from a belt. In modern law, the same word is used for a one-volume summary of a legal subject.
How HORNBOOK is used
Hornbook is a historical term for an early school tool, and a legal term in the United States.
- The museum displayed a hornbook from the seventeenth century.
- Each pupil carried a hornbook with the alphabet on it.
- The law student bought a hornbook on contracts.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HORNBOOK and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HORNBOOK
1 longer words begin with HORNBOOK.
Shorter words from the letters in HORNBOOK
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Common questions about HORNBOOK
- Is HORNBOOK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HORNBOOK, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HORNBOOK worth?
- HORNBOOK is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HORNBOOK mean?
- A child's first reading primer, a wooden paddle bearing a printed alphabet under a thin transparent sheet of horn.
- What letters can be added to HORNBOOK?
- HORNBOOK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of HORNBOOK:
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