SHARN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SHARN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHARN?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHARN is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHARN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHARN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHARN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does SHARN mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsdialect
Cattle dung, especially as it lies in a field or farmyard.
Sharn refers specifically to the droppings left by cows and other cattle rather than dung in general, and farmers traditionally used it as fertilizer once it had dried and broken down. The word comes from Old English scearn and survived strongly in Scots and northern English dialect long after standard English settled on the more general word dung. A farmyard covered in fresh sharn was simply an ordinary, expected sight to anyone working the land.
How SHARN is used
Traditional Scots and northern English dialect word, rarely heard outside rural or historical contexts.
- The farmer scraped sharn from his boots before entering the house.
- Fresh sharn covered the gateway where the cattle had passed.
- Old farming manuals describe spreading sharn on the fields each spring.
- The byre floor was thick with sharn after the long winter.
- Children were warned to watch their step around the sharn in the yard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHARN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHARN
The 5 tiles of SHARN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SHARN
5 longer words begin with SHARN.
Shorter words from the letters in SHARN
Common questions about SHARN
- Is SHARN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHARN, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHARN worth?
- SHARN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHARN mean?
- Cattle dung, especially as it lies in a field or farmyard.
- What letters can be added to SHARN?
- SHARN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHARN:
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