Is NOW a Scrabble word?
Yes. NOW is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends.
Meaning Present; current.
Adjective 2 meanings
Present; current.
Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
“I think this band's sound is very now.”
Adverb 4 meanings
At the present time.
“Now I am six.”
Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
“Now, we all want what is best for our children.”
Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
“Now I am ready.”
At the time reached within a narration.
“Now he remembered why he had come.”
Conjunction 1 meaning
Since, because, in light of the fact.
“Now all the children have grown up and left, the house is very quiet.”
Interjection 1 meaning
Indicates a signal to begin.
“Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!”
Noun 3 meanings
The present time.
“Now is the right time.”
The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
“She is living in the now.”
A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
Etymology
From Middle English nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Doublet of nu ("well?").
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NOW at a glance
NOW has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (N 1 + O 1 + W 4) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #70 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -NOW
More endings- KNOW11
- SNOW7
- MINNOW11
- WINNOW12
- ENOW7
- PIKEMINNOW21
- FOREKNOW18
- ACKNOW15
- ANOW7
- BESNOW11
- ERENOW9
- GNOW8
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