PONE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. PONE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PONE?
| 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 PONE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PONE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PONE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in PONE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,404.
What stands out about PONE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PONE mean in Scrabble?
noun
North Americanregional
A simple bread made from cornmeal, especially as baked or fried in the southern United States.
Pone comes from an Algonquian word for bread and refers to a basic cornmeal bread, usually made without wheat flour, milk or eggs. It was traditionally cooked in ashes or a hot pan and remains associated with southern American cooking, as in the related word cornpone.
How PONE is used
Regional American English, chiefly southern; often appears in the compound cornpone.
- Grandmother baked a pone of cornbread every Sunday.
- The recipe called for cornmeal, water and salt to make a simple pone.
- He fried the pone in bacon fat until it was crisp.
- Southern cooks still argue about the best way to make pone.
- A wedge of pone was served alongside the beans.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PONE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PONE
The 4 tiles of PONE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with PONE
7 longer words begin with PONE.
Words ending in PONE
13 words end in PONE. Useful as a back hook: play PONE onto a word already on the board.
Words with PONE inside
Showing 24 of 87 words that contain PONE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PONE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PONE
Common questions about PONE
- Is PONE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PONE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PONE worth?
- PONE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PONE mean?
- A simple bread made from cornmeal, especially as baked or fried in the southern United States.
- What letters can be added to PONE?
- PONE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of PONE:
Open PONE in the Word Finder