POWAN is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. POWAN is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept POWAN?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POWAN is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POWAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
powansChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POWAN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in POWAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does POWAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologyScots
A freshwater whitefish found only in a small number of Scottish lochs.
The powan is a relic of the last ice age, trapped in Loch Lomond and a couple of other lochs when the glaciers retreated and the sea withdrew. It belongs to the same family as herring and salmon but has adapted fully to fresh water and lives nowhere else in Britain outside those few lakes. Conservationists watch it closely because each surviving population is small and isolated.
How POWAN is used
A specialist and regional term, met mainly in writing about Scottish natural history.
- The powan survives today only in a handful of Scottish lochs.
- Anglers rarely target the powan, which is a protected species.
- A powan was pulled up in the survey net at dawn.
- The word powan names a whitefish left behind by retreating glaciers.
- Loch Lomond holds one of the last populations of powan.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POWAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with POWAN
1 longer words begin with POWAN.
Shorter words from the letters in POWAN
Common questions about POWAN
- Is POWAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POWAN, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POWAN worth?
- POWAN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POWAN mean?
- A freshwater whitefish found only in a small number of Scottish lochs.
- What letters can be added to POWAN?
- POWAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of POWAN:
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