PUNNER is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PUNNER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PUNNER?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PUNNER is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PUNNER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
punnersChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PUNNER scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PUNNER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 137,969.
What does PUNNER mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A hand tool with a flat, heavy head on a long handle, used to compact loose soil, gravel, or paving base by ramming it down.
A punner is swung or pressed down repeatedly to firm up ground before a path, floor, or foundation is laid over it. Builders reach for a punner rather than a full mechanical compactor for small areas, corners, and repairs where a bigger machine will not fit. The word is also recorded, more rarely, for a person who makes puns, alongside the far commoner punster, though that sense is seldom used outside wordplay contexts.
How PUNNER is used
Chiefly a builder's or gardener's tool; the "one who puns" sense of punner is rare and largely replaced by punster.
- The mason used a punner to compact the loose soil before laying the path.
- A wooden punner tamped down each course of gravel in the trench.
- Workers passed the punner along the row of stakes to firm the ground.
- The heavy iron punner left neat round marks on the packed earth.
- He kept an old punner in the shed for finishing garden paths.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PUNNER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PUNNER
1 longer words begin with PUNNER.
Shorter words from the letters in PUNNER
Common questions about PUNNER
- Is PUNNER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PUNNER, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PUNNER worth?
- PUNNER is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PUNNER mean?
- A hand tool with a flat, heavy head on a long handle, used to compact loose soil, gravel, or paving base by ramming it down.
- What letters can be added to PUNNER?
- PUNNER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PUNNER:
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