RONION is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RONION 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 RONION?
| 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 RONION is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RONION
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ronionsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RONION scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RONION, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 52,560.
What does RONION mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
An old term of abuse for a mangy, scabby or disreputable-looking creature, especially a woman.
Ronion, more often spelled ronyon, turns up chiefly in older English literature as a term of contempt, most famously when one of the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth complains about a sailor's wife called a rump-fed ronyon. The word likely traces back to French rogne, meaning mange or scab, so calling someone a ronion originally compared them to a diseased or unkempt animal. It carried real insult in its day, but the word faded from ordinary speech long ago and now survives mainly in quotations from older texts rather than in modern conversation. Readers today are far more likely to meet ronion in a footnote explaining an old line than to hear it used naturally.
How RONION is used
Archaic; encountered almost exclusively in older literature and in discussion of historical texts such as Shakespeare's plays.
- The witch in the play calls the sailor's wife a rump-fed ronion.
- Old pamphlets hurled the word ronion at anyone thought unclean or disreputable.
- Editors add a footnote whenever ronion appears in an old text.
- He found the archaic insult ronion in a glossary of period terms.
- Few modern readers would recognize ronion without a dictionary.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RONION and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RONION
1 longer words begin with RONION.
Shorter words from the letters in RONION
Common questions about RONION
- Is RONION valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RONION, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RONION worth?
- RONION is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RONION mean?
- An old term of abuse for a mangy, scabby or disreputable-looking creature, especially a woman.
- What letters can be added to RONION?
- RONION takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RONION:
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