YOJAN is valid in Collins, not in North America — 15 points
It depends on the list you play by. YOJAN 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 15 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept YOJAN?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YOJAN is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YOJAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How YOJAN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in YOJAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| j | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does YOJAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalIndian English
An ancient unit of distance used in India, roughly equal to eight or nine miles, though its exact length varied by region and era.
A yojan measured how far a cart or army could travel in a single stage of a journey, so its length shifted depending on the terrain and the period of use. The unit appears throughout Sanskrit and Buddhist texts to describe distances between cities, rivers and sacred sites. Modern scholars treat the yojan as an approximate rather than a fixed measure.
How YOJAN is used
Found mainly in historical, religious and scholarly writing about ancient India and Buddhist geography, not in everyday modern usage.
- The pilgrim's route was recorded as twelve yojan from the river to the temple.
- Ancient texts give the yojan as roughly equal to a day's march.
- The scholar converted the old yojan measurements into modern kilometres.
- Ten yojan separated the two kingdoms according to the epic.
- The map marked distances in yojan rather than miles.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YOJAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with YOJAN
3 longer words begin with YOJAN.
Shorter words from the letters in YOJAN
Common questions about YOJAN
- Is YOJAN valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and YOJAN is not in it.
- How many points is YOJAN worth?
- YOJAN is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YOJAN mean?
- An ancient unit of distance used in India, roughly equal to eight or nine miles, though its exact length varied by region and era.
- What letters can be added to YOJAN?
- YOJAN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of YOJAN:
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