THON is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. THON is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept THON?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THON is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
thongChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How THON scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in THON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,808.
What does THON mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scots
That, or yonder — pointing at something some distance away.
Thon works like yon: it marks a thing as away from both speaker and listener, further off than this or that reach. It survives strongest in lowland Scotland and Ulster, where thon lets a speaker point without raising a hand, and it has almost no life outside spoken dialect and writing that reproduces it.
How THON is used
Placed before the noun, like a demonstrative — thon man, thon hill. Chiefly Scots and Ulster.
- Thon man has been standing at the gate for an hour.
- Pass me thon hammer on the far end of the bench.
- She pointed at thon hill and said nothing more.
- Thon dog is not one of ours.
- He meant thon house at the end of the road, not this one.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with THON
8 longer words begin with THON.
Words ending in THON
15 words end in THON. Useful as a back hook: play THON onto a word already on the board.
Words with THON inside
Showing 24 of 98 words that contain THON somewhere in the middle. Words that start with THON are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in THON
Common questions about THON
- Is THON valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and THON is not in it.
- How many points is THON worth?
- THON is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THON mean?
- That, or yonder — pointing at something some distance away.
- What letters can be added to THON?
- THON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of THON:
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