JANE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. JANE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JANE?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JANE is to know. It scores 11 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JANE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
janesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JANE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in JANE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,051.
What does JANE mean in Scrabble?
noun
slanghistorical
A woman, in older American slang.
Jane is the counterpart of joe, and both work the same way: an ordinary first name pressed into service for an ordinary person. It belongs to crime writing of the 1930s and 1940s, and reaching for it now is a costume rather than a choice of word.
How JANE is used
Countable: a jane, two janes. Dated, and chiefly found in fiction of the period.
- Some jane in a green coat had been asking for him.
- The novel calls every woman in it a jane.
- A jane walked in and the room went quiet.
- Nobody has used jane in earnest since about 1955.
- The word jane dates a page as clearly as the typeface does.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JANE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of JANE
The 4 tiles of JANE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with JANE
1 longer words begin with JANE.
Words ending in JANE
1 words end in JANE. Useful as a back hook: play JANE onto a word already on the board.
Words with JANE inside
1 words contain JANE in the middle. Words that start with JANE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in JANE
Common questions about JANE
- Is JANE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JANE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JANE worth?
- JANE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JANE mean?
- A woman, in older American slang.
- What letters can be added to JANE?
- JANE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of JANE:
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