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Is now a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word now is a Scrabble US word. The word now is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

N1O1W4

Is now a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word now is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

N1O1W4

Is now a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word now is a Words With Friends word. The word now is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

N2O1W4

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Valid words made from Now

You can make 7 words from 'now' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


3 letters words from 'now'

NOW 6OWN 6
WON 6 

2 letters words from 'now'

NO 2ON 2
OW 5WO 5

All 3 letters words made out of now

now onw nwo wno own won

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

Definitions and meaning of now

now

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naʊ/
  • Rhymes: -aʊ

Etymology 1

From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

Adjective

now (not comparable)

  1. Present; current.
  2. (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
  3. (archaic, law) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.
See also
  • happening

Adverb

now (not comparable)

  1. At the present time.
  2. (sentence) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
  3. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
  4. Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
  5. At the time reached within a narration.
  6. In the context of urgency.
  7. (obsolete) As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
    • c. 1656, Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and Fight for Sea
      They that but now, for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.
Derived terms
Translations

Conjunction

now

  1. Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.
Translations

Interjection

now!

  1. Indicates a signal to begin.
Translations

Noun

now (usually uncountable, plural nows)

  1. (uncountable) The present time.
  2. (often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
    Synonyms: here and now; see also Thesaurus:the present
  3. (countable, chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
    • 1929, Emily Dickinson, Forever is composed of Nows
      Forever is composed of nows.
Derived terms
  • eternal now
Translations

References

  • now at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2

See know.

Verb

now

  1. Misspelling of know.

Anagrams

  • NWO, own, won

Source: wiktionary.org
  • the present time.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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