WEN is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. WEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WEN?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WEN is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WEN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WEN scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in WEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,123.
What does WEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
A harmless swelling under the skin.
Wen is an old medical word that survives in dialect and in one famous figurative use: the great wen was a nineteenth-century name for London, meaning a growth on the face of the country. The clinical term now is a cyst.
How WEN is used
Countable: a wen, two wens. Largely superseded in medicine.
- The wen was harmless and removed for the look of it.
- A wen on the scalp is the commonest place for one.
- London was called the great wen by somebody who disliked it.
- The word wen has been replaced by cyst in medicine.
- Two wens in the same family is not unusual.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WEN
The 3 tiles of WEN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WEN
Showing 24 of 27 words that begin with WEN.
Words ending in WEN
7 words end in WEN. Useful as a back hook: play WEN onto a word already on the board.
Words with WEN inside
23 words contain WEN in the middle. Words that start with WEN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WEN
Common questions about WEN
- Is WEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WEN, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WEN worth?
- WEN is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WEN mean?
- A harmless swelling under the skin.
- What letters can be added to WEN?
- WEN takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of WEN:
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