TWEEN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TWEEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TWEEN?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TWEEN is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TWEEN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TWEEN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TWEEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 15,843.
What does TWEEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
An informal term for a child roughly between the ages of ten and twelve, no longer a young child but not yet a teenager.
Marketers and parents use tween to describe the years when a child starts caring about fashion, music, and friend groups much like a teenager, while still enjoying toys and cartoons from earlier childhood. Stores often stock a separate tween section that sits between the children's and the junior clothing departments.
How TWEEN is used
Common in casual speech, retail, and media aimed at children just before their teenage years.
- The store added a tween section between kids and juniors.
- Her daughter is officially a tween now that she turned eleven.
- The show is written for a tween audience rather than younger children.
- Many tweens already have their own phones and social media accounts.
- The birthday party had a distinctly tween mix of dolls and pop music.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TWEEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TWEEN
11 longer words begin with TWEEN.
Words ending in TWEEN
2 words end in TWEEN. Useful as a back hook: play TWEEN onto a word already on the board.
Words with TWEEN inside
10 words contain TWEEN in the middle. Words that start with TWEEN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TWEEN
Common questions about TWEEN
- Is TWEEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TWEEN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TWEEN worth?
- TWEEN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TWEEN mean?
- An informal term for a child roughly between the ages of ten and twelve, no longer a young child but not yet a teenager.
- What letters can be added to TWEEN?
- TWEEN takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TWEEN:
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