JONES is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. JONES is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JONES?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JONES is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JONES
No single letter turns JONES into another word.
How JONES scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JONES, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does JONES mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalNorth American
An intense craving or persistent desire for something, especially a drug, informally likened to an addiction.
A jones describes a strong, nagging craving, originally used in American street slang for a drug habit before broadening to cover any powerful urge, from a coffee jones to a jones for sweets. As a verb, to jones for something means to crave it intensely, often with a hint of humour when applied to harmless cravings rather than genuine addiction. The word likely comes from earlier slang use of the surname Jones as a stand-in for heroin dependency among users in mid-twentieth-century America. Today the milder, joking use of jones for an ordinary craving is far more common than its original, more serious sense.
How JONES is used
Informal, chiefly American slang, used both as a noun for a strong craving and as a verb meaning to crave something intensely.
- He admitted to having a serious jones for chocolate.
- She gets a jones for coffee every afternoon around three.
- His old jones for cigarettes returned during the stressful week.
- They joked about her jones for online shopping.
- A late-night jones for pizza sent him out into the rain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JONES and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of JONES
The 5 tiles of JONES in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with JONES
3 longer words begin with JONES.
Words ending in JONES
4 words end in JONES. Useful as a back hook: play JONES onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in JONES
Common questions about JONES
- Is JONES valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JONES, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JONES worth?
- JONES is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JONES mean?
- An intense craving or persistent desire for something, especially a drug, informally likened to an addiction.
- What letters can be added to JONES?
- No single letter can be added to JONES to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JONES:
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