POON is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. POON 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 POON?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POON is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POON
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POON scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in POON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 11,670.
What does POON mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A tropical evergreen tree of southern Asia, valued for its hard timber once used in ships' masts and spars.
The poon is a large tree of the genus Calophyllum, native to South and Southeast Asia, and its tough, straight-grained wood was historically prized for making masts and spars because it grows tall and true. Older timber trade writing sometimes labelled the same tree poonwood.
How POON is used
Specialist botanical and historical trade term, rarely used outside those fields.
- Shipwrights once imported poon timber for their masts.
- The poon grows in the coastal forests of southern India.
- Its shiny leathery leaves make the poon easy to identify.
- Old sailing manuals describe spars cut from poon wood.
- Botanists classify the poon within the genus Calophyllum.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POON
The 4 tiles of POON in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with POON
9 longer words begin with POON.
Words ending in POON
9 words end in POON. Useful as a back hook: play POON onto a word already on the board.
Words with POON inside
Showing 24 of 61 words that contain POON somewhere in the middle. Words that start with POON are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in POON
Common questions about POON
- Is POON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POON, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POON worth?
- POON is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POON mean?
- A tropical evergreen tree of southern Asia, valued for its hard timber once used in ships' masts and spars.
- What letters can be added to POON?
- POON takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of POON:
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