JAPAN is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. JAPAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JAPAN?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JAPAN is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JAPAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
japansChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JAPAN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JAPAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does JAPAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
A hard black varnish of the kind first imitated from East Asian lacquer.
European workshops of the seventeenth century could not get the tree resin the originals were made from, so they built a finish of their own out of shellac and heat and called the process japanning. The result is not the same material at all: japan is baked on in thin coats and is at its best on metal, which is why tea trays and clock faces survive in it far more often than furniture does.
How JAPAN is used
Uncountable as the finish, countable as an object made in it. Also a verb — to japan a tray.
- The tray is japanned steel and still unmarked.
- Japan chips at the edge and shows the metal underneath.
- They japanned the whole batch in one firing.
- A clock face in japan darkens with age.
- The workshop japanned everything from trays to coffin plates.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JAPAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JAPAN
13 longer words begin with JAPAN.
Shorter words from the letters in JAPAN
Common questions about JAPAN
- Is JAPAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JAPAN, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JAPAN worth?
- JAPAN is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JAPAN mean?
- A hard black varnish of the kind first imitated from East Asian lacquer.
- What letters can be added to JAPAN?
- JAPAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JAPAN:
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