PUN is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. PUN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PUN?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PUN is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 7 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PUN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PUN scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in PUN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What does PUN mean in Scrabble?
noun
A joke exploiting two meanings of a similar-sounding word.
Pun appeared suddenly in the seventeenth century with no known ancestor, which is oddly fitting for the thing it names. Languages with fewer homophones than English find it much harder to build one at all.
How PUN is used
Countable. Also a verb: punned, punning.
- A pun in a headline is forgiven and one in a speech is not.
- The word pun has no known origin.
- He punned twice in one sentence and lost the room.
- Two puns and the audience turned on him.
- English makes a pun easier than most languages do.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PUN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PUN
Showing 24 of 201 words that begin with PUN.
Words ending in PUN
5 words end in PUN. Useful as a back hook: play PUN onto a word already on the board.
Words with PUN inside
Showing 24 of 151 words that contain PUN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PUN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PUN
Common questions about PUN
- Is PUN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PUN, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PUN worth?
- PUN is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PUN mean?
- A joke exploiting two meanings of a similar-sounding word.
- What letters can be added to PUN?
- PUN takes 7 hooks: 1 in front and 6 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of PUN:
Open PUN in the Word Finder