SHORN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SHORN 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 SHORN?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHORN is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHORN
No single letter turns SHORN into another word.
How SHORN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHORN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does SHORN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Having had hair, wool or a similar growth cut close or removed entirely, or, in the phrase shorn of, stripped or deprived of some quality or possession.
A sheep newly shorn of its wool looks strikingly different from the shaggy animal it was days before, and farmers time the shearing carefully around the seasons. Writers extended the same idea figuratively, so a leader shorn of power or an argument shorn of its usual complexity has been stripped down to something plainer or weaker than before. Shorn began simply as the old past participle of shear, but its use in the shorn of construction has become common enough to stand on its own as a descriptive word. The figurative sense tends to appear in more formal or literary writing, while the literal sense of cut hair or wool remains equally at home in ordinary farm speech.
How SHORN is used
The literal sense describes a recently sheared animal in ordinary farm speech; the figurative shorn of, meaning stripped or deprived, appears more often in formal or literary writing.
- The newly shorn sheep huddled together against the cold.
- He felt shorn of all authority after the vote.
- The story arrives shorn of its usual sentimental detail.
- A shorn lamb bleated at the gate for its mother.
- Shorn of his title, the former minister returned to ordinary life.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHORN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHORN
The 5 tiles of SHORN in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in SHORN
5 words end in SHORN. Useful as a back hook: play SHORN onto a word already on the board.
Words with SHORN inside
6 words contain SHORN in the middle. Words that start with SHORN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SHORN
Common questions about SHORN
- Is SHORN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHORN, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHORN worth?
- SHORN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHORN mean?
- Having had hair, wool or a similar growth cut close or removed entirely, or, in the phrase shorn of, stripped or deprived of some quality or possession.
- What letters can be added to SHORN?
- No single letter can be added to SHORN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHORN:
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