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Is hone a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hone is a Scrabble US word. The word hone is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is hone a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hone is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

HONE,

3-letter words (6 found)

EON,HEN,HOE,HON,NOH,ONE,

2-letter words (9 found)

EH,EN,HE,HO,NE,NO,OE,OH,ON,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from hone according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of hone

hone ohne hnoe nhoe onhe nohe hoen ohen heon ehon oehn eohn hneo nheo heno ehno neho enho oneh noeh oenh eonh neoh enoh

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Definitions and meaning of hone

hone

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /hoʊn/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊn/
  • Rhymes: -əʊn

Etymology 1

From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)).

Noun

hone (plural hones)

  1. A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
  2. A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
Derived terms
  • hone slate
  • hone stone
  • Turkey hone
Translations

Verb

hone (third-person singular simple present hones, present participle honing, simple past and past participle honed)

  1. (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
  2. (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  3. (transitive) To refine or master (a skill).
  4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.
Derived terms
  • hone in (on) (proscribed)
Translations

See also

  • grit
  • sandpaper
  • steel
  • strop
  • swarf

Etymology 2

Cognate with Icelandic hnúður. Distantly related to knot.

Noun

hone (plural hones)

  1. A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Derived terms
  • honewort

Etymology 3

French hogner (“to grumble”), which could be a cross of honnir (“to disgrace, shame”) and grogner (“to grunt”).

Verb

hone (third-person singular simple present hones, present participle honing, simple past and past participle honed)

  1. (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.
    • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
      Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
      Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
  2. (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.

Etymology 4

Interjection

hone

  1. Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief
    • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 4, page 141

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

  • huunig (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German honec, honic, from Old High German honag, honeg, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą. Cognate with German Honig, English honey.

Noun

hone m

  1. (Luserna) honey
    süaz azpi dar hone ― as sweet as honey

References

  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Japanese

Romanization

hone

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ほね

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hān, from Proto-West Germanic *hainu, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (“whetstone”). The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

Alternative forms

  • hayn, hoone

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɔːn(ə)/

Noun

hone

  1. hone (whetstone)
Descendants
  • English: hone
    • → Scots: hone, whoon

References

  • “hōne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

hone

  1. Alternative form of hon

Yola

Noun

hone

  1. Alternative form of hoane

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 14

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