Is DUN a Scrabble word?
Yes. DUN is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends.
Meaning A brownish grey colour.
Noun 4 meanings
A brownish grey colour.
A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
An urgent request or demand of payment.
A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
Adjective 1 meaning
Of a brownish grey colour.
Verb 3 meanings
To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
“Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.”
To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
Interjection 1 meaning
Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music.
Etymology
From Middle English dun, donn, dunne, from Old English dunn (“dun, dingy brown, bark-colored, brownish black”), from Proto-West Germanic *duʀn, from Proto-Germanic *duznaz, *dusnaz (“brown, yellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”).
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DUN at a glance
DUN has 3 letters and scores 4 points in Scrabble (D 2 + U 1 + N 1) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #18,421 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -DUN
More endings- VODUN9
- TUNDUN7
- TURNDUN8
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