PONENT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PONENT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PONENT?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PONENT is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PONENT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ponentsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PONENT scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PONENT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 68,985.
What does PONENT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicliterary
Situated in or belonging to the west; western, especially the direction where the sun sets.
Ponent survives mainly from older geographical writing, where it described the western half of the Mediterranean and its islands as opposed to the levant, the eastern lands where the sun rises. The poet Milton used ponent for the west itself, the quarter of the sky into which the sun descends at day's end. Modern English rarely needs the word, since west and western cover the same ground, so ponent now appears almost only in older texts or deliberately archaic prose.
How PONENT is used
Archaic and literary; found chiefly in older geographical and poetic writing about the western Mediterranean or the setting sun.
- Old charts marked the ponent islands along the western coast.
- The poem speaks of ponent skies burning red at dusk.
- Sailors once used ponent to mean simply the west.
- Historians still quote ponent when citing old Mediterranean trade records.
- The ponent wind was said to bring fair weather from the west.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PONENT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PONENT
1 longer words begin with PONENT.
Shorter words from the letters in PONENT
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Common questions about PONENT
- Is PONENT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PONENT, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PONENT worth?
- PONENT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PONENT mean?
- Situated in or belonging to the west; western, especially the direction where the sun sets.
- What letters can be added to PONENT?
- PONENT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PONENT:
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