JETSON is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. JETSON is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept JETSON?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JETSON is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JETSON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
jetsonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JETSON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in JETSON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does JETSON mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaiclegalnautical
An old term for jetsam, goods thrown overboard from a ship that sink and remain underwater.
Maritime law once distinguished jetson from flotsam and ligan by whether the discarded cargo sank, floated, or stayed tied to a marker buoy. Sailors threw goods overboard as jetson to lighten a ship in danger, and ownership of such sunken cargo became a matter for old admiralty courts.
How JETSON is used
An old legal and nautical term, replaced by jetsam in modern usage.
- The crew cast crates overboard as jetson to save the ship.
- Old maritime law treated jetson differently from floating wreckage.
- Divers later recovered barrels of jetson from the seabed.
- The captain's log recorded the loss of cargo as jetson.
- Insurers argued over who owned the sunken jetson.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JETSON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of JETSON
The 6 tiles of JETSON in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with JETSON
1 longer words begin with JETSON.
Shorter words from the letters in JETSON
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Common questions about JETSON
- Is JETSON valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and JETSON is not in it.
- How many points is JETSON worth?
- JETSON is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JETSON mean?
- An old term for jetsam, goods thrown overboard from a ship that sink and remain underwater.
- What letters can be added to JETSON?
- JETSON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of JETSON:
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