YAPON is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. YAPON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept YAPON?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YAPON is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YAPON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
yaponsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How YAPON scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in YAPON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does YAPON mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanyNorth American
A variant spelling of yaupon, an evergreen holly shrub native to the southeastern United States whose leaves were traditionally brewed into a caffeinated tea.
Yapon names the same shrub more commonly spelled yaupon, a holly with small leaves and bright red berries that grows along the coastal plain of the southeastern United States. Indigenous peoples of the region roasted and steeped its leaves to brew a strong, caffeinated drink, sometimes used ceremonially in large quantities. Today the plant is more often grown as an ornamental hedge, and the yapon spelling appears mainly in older or regional sources.
How YAPON is used
A regional and somewhat older spelling; the form yaupon is more common in current horticultural writing.
- Settlers along the coast brewed a tea from yapon leaves.
- The nursery sold a compact yapon shrub for the garden border.
- Yapon berries stayed bright red through much of the winter.
- Older botanical guides list yapon alongside its more common spelling.
- They planted a row of yapon to form a dense evergreen hedge.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YAPON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with YAPON
1 longer words begin with YAPON.
Shorter words from the letters in YAPON
Common questions about YAPON
- Is YAPON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YAPON, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YAPON worth?
- YAPON is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YAPON mean?
- A variant spelling of yaupon, an evergreen holly shrub native to the southeastern United States whose leaves were traditionally brewed into a caffeinated tea.
- What letters can be added to YAPON?
- YAPON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of YAPON:
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