PAEON is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PAEON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PAEON?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PAEON is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PAEON
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PAEON scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PAEON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,262.
What stands out about PAEON
- PAEON runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PAEON mean in Scrabble?
noun
literarypoetic
A metrical foot of four syllables, one long and three short, arranged in any of four possible orders.
Classical prosody names a paeon by where its single long syllable falls among the three short ones, giving a first, second, third, or fourth paeon depending on its position. Poets and scholars analysing Greek and Latin verse, and occasionally English verse built on a similar pattern, use the term to describe this four-syllable rhythm. The word is closely related to paean, the song of praise, since both trace back to the same Greek root.
How PAEON is used
A technical term used in the study of classical and English poetic metre, rarely met outside academic writing.
- The scholar identified a paeon in the opening line of the ode.
- A first paeon places its long syllable at the very start of the foot.
- Her thesis examined the use of the paeon in classical Greek chorus.
- Textbooks on metre list the paeon alongside the dactyl and the anapaest.
- He scanned the verse line by line, marking each paeon he found.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PAEON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PAEON
5 longer words begin with PAEON.
Shorter words from the letters in PAEON
Common questions about PAEON
- Is PAEON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PAEON, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PAEON worth?
- PAEON is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PAEON mean?
- A metrical foot of four syllables, one long and three short, arranged in any of four possible orders.
- What letters can be added to PAEON?
- PAEON takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PAEON:
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