SHOON is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SHOON 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 SHOON?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHOON is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHOON
No single letter turns SHOON into another word.
How SHOON scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHOON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 56,018.
What does SHOON mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicdialect
An old plural of shoe, formed with an archaic ending rather than the ordinary modern plural, and found chiefly in poetry, ballads and British dialect speech.
English once pluralised several common nouns with an -en or -n ending rather than the now-standard -s, and shoon survives as one of the clearest examples alongside words such as oxen and children. Poets and ballad writers kept shoon alive long after ordinary speech had settled on shoes, valuing it for its old-fashioned sound and its usefulness in rhyme. Dialect speech in parts of Britain also preserved shoon well into more recent times, even as standard English abandoned it almost entirely. A reader who meets shoon today is most likely encountering it in a quoted ballad, an older poem, or a passage deliberately written in an archaic or dialect voice.
How SHOON is used
Archaic and poetic; encountered mainly in ballads, older verse and British dialect writing rather than in ordinary modern speech.
- The ballad described a traveller with worn shoon and a heavy pack.
- Old shoon dangled from a nail by the cottage door.
- The poem rhymed shoon with moon in its final verse.
- Dialect speakers in the village still called their shoes shoon.
- Muddy shoon lined the porch after the long walk home.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHOON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHOON
The 5 tiles of SHOON in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SHOON
Common questions about SHOON
- Is SHOON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHOON, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHOON worth?
- SHOON is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHOON mean?
- An old plural of shoe, formed with an archaic ending rather than the ordinary modern plural, and found chiefly in poetry, ballads and British dialect speech.
- What letters can be added to SHOON?
- No single letter can be added to SHOON to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHOON:
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