TRONE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. TRONE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TRONE?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TRONE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TRONE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tronesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TRONE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TRONE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,631.
What stands out about TRONE
- The letters of TRONE run in reverse alphabetical order.
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 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 TRONE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotshistorical
A large public weighing machine, formerly set up in a marketplace or town to weigh goods.
The trone stood in the open market of a Scottish or northern English town, and traders were required to bring sacks of grain, wool or other goods to it before a sale could be settled. Local authorities usually placed the trone under the charge of an official weighmaster, who charged a small fee for each use, and the accuracy of the trone was often protected by town bylaws. The word survives today mainly in place names and in historical writing about medieval and early modern market towns, since the physical device it named has long been replaced by standard commercial scales.
How TRONE is used
Historical and Scots; found in accounts of old market towns rather than in everyday speech about modern weighing equipment.
- The merchants queued at the trone to have their sacks of wool weighed before market day.
- Fines were levied on any trader caught avoiding the town trone.
- A weighmaster stood by the trone from dawn until the last cart had been checked.
- Old burgh records mention repairs made to the public trone after a storm.
- Historians studying the trone note how central it was to fair trade in a medieval market.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TRONE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TRONE
The 5 tiles of TRONE in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with TRONE
1 longer words begin with TRONE.
Words ending in TRONE
5 words end in TRONE. Useful as a back hook: play TRONE onto a word already on the board.
Words with TRONE inside
23 words contain TRONE in the middle. Words that start with TRONE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TRONE
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Common questions about TRONE
- Is TRONE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TRONE, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TRONE worth?
- TRONE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TRONE mean?
- A large public weighing machine, formerly set up in a marketplace or town to weigh goods.
- What letters can be added to TRONE?
- TRONE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TRONE:
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