PONY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. PONY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PONY?
| 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 PONY is to know. It scores 9 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PONY
No single letter turns PONY into another word.
How PONY scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in PONY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,423.
What does PONY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A horse of a small breed.
Pony has a British slang sense of twenty-five pounds that has nothing to do with horses, and nobody knows where it came from. The animal sense came from a French word about a foal.
How PONY is used
Countable; the plural changes the y.
- A pony is not a young horse but a small breed.
- The word pony came from a French one about a foal.
- A pony in British slang is twenty-five pounds.
- Nobody knows how pony came to mean money.
- Two pony breeds of very different height.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PONY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PONY
6 longer words begin with PONY.
Words ending in PONY
1 words end in PONY. Useful as a back hook: play PONY onto a word already on the board.
Words with PONY inside
Showing 24 of 25 words that contain PONY somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PONY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PONY
Common questions about PONY
- Is PONY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PONY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PONY worth?
- PONY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PONY mean?
- A horse of a small breed.
- What letters can be added to PONY?
- No single letter can be added to PONY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of PONY:
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