Is JAVA valid in Words with Friends?

Yes. Words with Friends accepts JAVA, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.

How many points is JAVA worth?

JAVA is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.

What letters can be added to JAVA?

JAVA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.

JAVA is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points

Yes. JAVA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.

j8a1v4a1

PlayableJAVA · 4 letters · 14 pts Scrabble · 17 pts WWF

14points in Scrabble

17points in Words with Friends

4letters

1hook available

1 in 54,461odds of drawing this rack

Which word lists accept JAVA?

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: 47 / 100

47WORD POWER

Points per tile 35%

3.5

Hooks 25%

Bingo potential 20%

Tile availability 20%

5.25%

Our own measure of how useful JAVA is to know. It scores 14 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated

Hooks for JAVA

Front hooks — 0

None.

Back hooks — 1

javas15

Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.

How JAVA scores

Scrabble j8a1v4a1 14

Words with Friends j10a1v5a1 17

Face value of the 4 tiles in JAVA, before any board multiplier.

Tiles you need

Letter	Needed	In the bag
j	1	1
a	2	9
v	1	2

Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 54,461.

What does JAVA mean in Scrabble?

noun

informalNorth American

Coffee, in informal American speech.

Java is American slang from the nineteenth century, named after the island that supplied much of the world's coffee at the time. The programming language took the name in 1995 for exactly the same association.

How JAVA is used

Uncountable. Informal and American.

A cup of java and a very long shift.
The word java is named after the island.
Java as a language was named in 1995.
Nobody in Britain calls coffee java.
Two mugs of java before anybody spoke.

Written for this site: 1 meaning of JAVA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.

Words starting with JAVA

javas15

1 longer words begin with JAVA.

Shorter words from the letters in JAVA

ava6 ja9 aa2

Common questions about JAVA

Is JAVA valid in Words with Friends?: Yes. Words with Friends accepts JAVA, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
How many points is JAVA worth?: JAVA is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
What does JAVA mean?: Coffee, in informal American speech.
What letters can be added to JAVA?: JAVA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.

Every word you can build from the 4 letters of JAVA:

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