PWNED is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. PWNED 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept PWNED?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PWNED is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PWNED
No single letter turns PWNED into another word.
How PWNED scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PWNED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does PWNED mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informalslang
Utterly defeated, humiliated, or compromised, especially online or in a video game.
Gamers trace pwned to a supposed typo for owned in an old map-editor victory message, and the misspelling stuck as its own word. Security writers later borrowed it for a system or account broken into by a hacker, keeping the same sting of total, one-sided defeat.
How PWNED is used
Internet and gaming slang; also seen in security reporting, such as data-breach checkers.
- He got pwned in the final round of the match.
- The forum announced that the whole database had been pwned.
- Their team felt thoroughly pwned after the last-minute goal.
- A single weak password left the account pwned within hours.
- She laughed at how badly she had pwned her opponent.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PWNED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PWNED
Common questions about PWNED
- Is PWNED valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PWNED is not in it.
- How many points is PWNED worth?
- PWNED is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PWNED mean?
- Utterly defeated, humiliated, or compromised, especially online or in a video game.
- What letters can be added to PWNED?
- No single letter can be added to PWNED to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PWNED:
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