ONION is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ONION is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ONION?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ONION is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ONION
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ONION scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ONION, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,917.
What does ONION mean in Scrabble?
noun
A rounded vegetable bulb with a sharp, pungent taste and smell, made of overlapping layers, widely used raw or cooked in cooking.
An onion grows underground as a bulb of tightly packed, fleshy layers wrapped in a papery skin, and sulfur compounds released when it is cut are what sting the eyes and make them water. Cooks use onion raw for a sharp bite, or slowly cooked until it turns sweet and soft, and it forms the base of countless dishes across nearly every cuisine in the world. Varieties range from the mild sweet onion and slender green spring onion to the sharp red onion often eaten raw in salads. The layered structure of an onion is also used figuratively for anything made up of nested layers to be peeled back one at a time.
How ONION is used
An everyday cooking word, and often used figuratively for something with layers to uncover, as in peeling back the layers of an onion.
- She chopped an onion for the soup and wiped her watering eyes.
- The recipe called for one large onion, finely diced.
- Fried onions topped the burger.
- Red onion added a sharp crunch to the salad.
- Untangling the story felt like peeling an onion, layer after layer.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ONION and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ONION
8 longer words begin with ONION.
Words ending in ONION
6 words end in ONION. Useful as a back hook: play ONION onto a word already on the board.
Words with ONION inside
8 words contain ONION in the middle. Words that start with ONION are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ONION
Common questions about ONION
- Is ONION valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ONION, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ONION worth?
- ONION is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ONION mean?
- A rounded vegetable bulb with a sharp, pungent taste and smell, made of overlapping layers, widely used raw or cooked in cooking.
- What letters can be added to ONION?
- ONION takes 4 hooks: 2 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ONION:
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