SON is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. SON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SON?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SON is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SON
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SON scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in SON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 842.
What stands out about SON
- The same 3 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SON mean in Scrabble?
noun
A male child in relation to his parents.
Son is one of a small set of family words that are nearly identical across the Indo-European languages, and that resemblance is how the family was first recognised. The ending in surnames like Johnson is the very same word.
How SON is used
Countable: a son, two sons.
- Their son moved abroad and writes twice a year.
- The word son is nearly the same across Europe.
- A surname ending in son contains the word itself.
- Two sons and neither of them interested in the farm.
- Family words like son revealed the whole language family.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SON
The 3 tiles of SON in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SON
Showing 24 of 144 words that begin with SON.
Words ending in SON
Showing 24 of 146 words that end in SON. Useful as a back hook: play SON onto a word already on the board.
Words with SON inside
Showing 24 of 662 words that contain SON somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SON are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SON
Common questions about SON
- Is SON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SON, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SON worth?
- SON is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SON mean?
- A male child in relation to his parents.
- What letters can be added to SON?
- SON takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of SON:
Open SON in the Word Finder