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Is fawn a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fawn is a Scrabble US word. The word fawn is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

F4A1W4N1

Is fawn a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word fawn is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

F4A1W4N1

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Yes. The word fawn is a Words With Friends word. The word fawn is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

FAWN,

3-letter words (5 found)

AWN,FAN,FAW,NAW,WAN,

2-letter words (4 found)

AN,AW,FA,NA,

You can make 10 words from fawn according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of fawn

fawn afwn fwan wfan awfn wafn fanw afnw fnaw nfaw anfw nafw fwna wfna fnwa nfwa wnfa nwfa awnf wanf anwf nawf wnaf nwaf

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word fawn. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in fawn.

Definitions and meaning of fawn

fawn

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /fɔːn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /fɔn/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /fɑn/
  • Homophone: faun
  • Rhymes: -ɔːn

Etymology 1

From Middle English fawne, fowne, foun, from Old French faon, foon, feon, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem, from Latin fētus (“offspring, young”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”). Displaced native Old English hindċealf (literally “deer calf”). Doublet of fetus.

Noun

fawn (plural fawns)

  1. A young deer.
    Synonym: deerling
  2. A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
  3. (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
Derived terms
  • fawn antechinus
  • in fawn
Translations

Adjective

fawn (not comparable)

  1. Of the fawn colour.
Derived terms
  • fawn lily
Translations

Verb

fawn (third-person singular simple present fawns, present participle fawning, simple past and past participle fawned)

  1. (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fawnen, from Old English fagnian, alternative form of fæġnian (“to celebrate”), whence Middle English fainen, English fain. Cognate with Old Norse fagna. See also fain.

Verb

fawn (third-person singular simple present fawns, present participle fawning, simple past and past participle fawned)

  1. (intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
  2. (intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
    Synonyms: grovel, wheedle, soft-soap, toady
  3. (intransitive, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.
Derived terms
  • fawn over
  • overfawn
Translations

Noun

fawn (plural fawns)

  1. (rare) A servile cringe or bow.
  2. Base flattery.

See also

  • Appendix:Colors

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • faun, faawn

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Faunus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fau̯n/

Noun

fawn (plural fawnes or fawny)

  1. faun, satyr

Descendants

  • English: faun

References

  • “faun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vau̯n/

Verb

fawn

  1. Soft mutation of bawn.

Noun

fawn

  1. Soft mutation of mawn.

Mutation


Source: wiktionary.org