The word colon is a valid scrabble word

3 short excerpts of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other Wiktionnaries.)

  • colon n. The punctuation mark ":".
  • colon n. (Rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
  • colon n. (Rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.

27 valid words from 3 definitions

ABLE ACTUAL BEING BUT CLAUSE COLON COMPLETE CONSISTING CONTEXT ESPECIALLY FIGURE GRAMMATICALLY IN IS LOGICALLY MARK NOT OF PUNCTUATION RARE RHETORIC RHETORICAL THE TO TRIANGULAR TYPE WHICH

3 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word.)

COL LO ON

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word.)

LO NO NOLO

7 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

CODON COGON COLIN COLOG COLOR HOLON SOLON

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

CLON COON

68 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

COLONE COLONI COLONS COLONY COLONEL COLONES COLONIC COLONUS COLONELS COLONIAL COLONICS COLONIES COLONISE COLONIST COLONIZE COLONELCY COLONIALS COLONISED COLONISER COLONISES COLONISTS COLONITIS COLONIZED COLONIZER COLONIZES COLONNADE COLONIALLY COLONISERS COLONISING COLONIZERS COLONIZING COLONNADED COLONNADES COLONELCIES COLONELLING COLONELSHIP COLONIALISE COLONIALISM COLONIALIST COLONIALIZE COLONISABLE COLONITISES COLONIZABLE COLONOSCOPE COLONOSCOPY COLONELLINGS COLONELSHIPS COLONIALISED COLONIALISES COLONIALISMS + 18 words

45 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

SUBCOLONY DECOLONISE DECOLONIZE RECOLONISE RECOLONIZE SEMICOLONS SEMICOLONY DECOLONISED DECOLONISES DECOLONIZED DECOLONIZES NEOCOLONIAL PRECOLONIAL RECOLONISED RECOLONISES RECOLONIZED RECOLONIZES SUBCOLONIES ANTICOLONIAL DECOLONISING DECOLONIZING POSTCOLONIAL PRECOLONIALS RECOLONISING RECOLONIZING SEMICOLONIAL SEMICOLONIES ANTICOLONIALS INTERCOLONIAL DECOLONISATION DECOLONIZATION NEOCOLONIALISM NEOCOLONIALIST RECOLONISATION RECOLONIZATION ANTICOLONIALISM ANTICOLONIALIST DECOLONISATIONS DECOLONIZATIONS INTERCOLONIALLY NEOCOLONIALISMS NEOCOLONIALISTS RECOLONISATIONS RECOLONIZATIONS SEMICOLONIALISM

One prefix (New word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

SEMICOLON

6 anagrams plus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word plus a letter.)

+E COLONE
+I COLONI
+S COLONS CONSOL
+U UNCOOL
+Y COLONY

6 anagrams minus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

-C LOON NOLO
-L COON
-N COOL LOCO
-O CLON

Scrabble scoring

  • 7 points.

Probability in scrabble (Probability to draw 7 letters at the beginning of the game to build the word.)

  • Joker allowed, 1 in 557 chance (0.18%).
  • Joker not allowed, 1 in 2668 chance (0.04%).

Other languages

  • Valid: French German Spanish Italian Romanian
  • (In French) COLON n.m.
  • (In French) COLON (pl. COLONES ou COLONS) n.m. Unité monétaire du Costa Rica.
  • (In French) CÔLON n.m. Partie du gros intestin.
  • (In Spanish) COLON m. Anat. Porción del intestino grueso de los mamíferos, que empieza donde concluye el ciego, cuando este existe, y acaba donde comienza el recto.
  • (In Spanish) COLÓN m. Nombre de las unidades monetarias de Costa Rica y de El Salvador.

Categories without words

  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.

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