JUN is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. JUN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JUN?
| 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 JUN is to know. It scores 10 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JUN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How JUN scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in JUN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,738.
What does JUN mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A former unit of Korean money, worth a hundredth of a won.
The jun was small change and it is long out of use: prices rose past it, and the coins survive mainly in collections. Both Koreas kept the unit on paper for accounting long after nobody handled one, which is how a jun can turn up in a table of rates and nowhere else at all.
How JUN is used
Countable: a jun, two jun. The plural is usually unmarked, as with most currency subunits.
- A jun was worth too little to be worth carrying.
- The table lists the won and the jun side by side.
- Collectors pay far more for a jun than it ever bought.
- Prices were quoted in jun long after the coins vanished.
- He has one jun in a frame on the wall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JUN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JUN
Showing 24 of 80 words that begin with JUN.
Words ending in JUN
2 words end in JUN. Useful as a back hook: play JUN onto a word already on the board.
Words with JUN inside
Showing 24 of 85 words that contain JUN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with JUN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in JUN
Common questions about JUN
- Is JUN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JUN, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JUN worth?
- JUN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JUN mean?
- A former unit of Korean money, worth a hundredth of a won.
- What letters can be added to JUN?
- JUN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of JUN:
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