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Is own a Scrabble word?

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

O1W4N1

Is own a Scrabble UK word?

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

O1W4N1

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

O1W4N2

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Valid words made from Own

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


3 letters words from 'own'

NOW 6OWN 6
WON 6 

2 letters words from 'own'

NO 2ON 2
OW 5WO 5

All 3 letters words made out of own

own won onw now wno nwo

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

Definitions and meaning of own

own

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊn/
  • (US) enPR: ōn, IPA(key): /ˈoʊn/
  • (Hong Kong) IPA(key): /ˈuŋ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊn

Etymology 1

From Middle English owen, aȝen, from Old English āgen (“own, proper, peculiar”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to have, possess”). Cognate with Scots ain (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), Dutch, German and Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish egen (“own”), Icelandic eigin (“own”). Originally past participle of the verb at hand in English owe.

Alternative forms

  • 'n (informal contraction)

Adjective

own

  1. Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
  2. Not shared
  3. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
  4. (obsolete) Not foreign.
Usage notes
  • Often used for implication of ownership, often with emphasis. In modern usage, it always follows a possessive determiner, or a noun in the possessive case.
Derived terms
  • be one's own worst enemy
  • come into one's own
  • hoist by one's own petard
  • one's own boss
  • on one's own
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ownen, from Old English āgnian (“to own”), from Proto-Germanic *aigināną. Cognate with Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna. Derived from etymology 1.

Verb

own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)

  1. (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
    I own this car.
  2. (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
  3. (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
    I will own my enemies.
    If he wins, he will own you.
  4. (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
  5. (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
  6. (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
Synonyms
  • (have rightful possession of): to possess
  • (defeat): beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English unnen (“to favour, grant”), from Old English unnan (“to grant, allow, recognise, confess”) or geunnan (“to allow, grant, bestow; to concede”), from Proto-Germanic *unnaną (“to grant, bestow”). Akin to German gönnen (from Old High German gi- + unnan), Old Norse unna (Danish unde). In Gothic only the substantive 𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 (ansts) is attested.

Verb

own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To grant; give.
  2. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
    • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
      They learned how perfectly peaceful the home could be. And they almost regretted—though none of them would have owned to such callousness—that their father was soon coming back.
  3. (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
    • 1611, Shakespeare, The Tempest, v.:
      Two of those fellows you must know and own.
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 1, Jocelin of Brakelond
      It must be owned, the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!
  4. (transitive) To take responsibility for.
  5. (transitive) To answer to.
  6. (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
    to own one as a son
  7. (transitive) To claim as one's own.
  8. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To confess.

Antonyms

  • disown
Derived terms
  • own up
  • disown
Translations

References

  • 1896, Universal Dictionary of the English Language [UDEL], v3 p3429:
    To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to.
  • 1896, ibid., UDEL
  • 1896, ibid., UDEL
  • 1896, ibid., UDEL
  • Notes:

Anagrams

  • NOW, NWO, now, won

Portuguese

Interjection

own

  1. aw (used to express affection)

Quotations

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Source: wiktionary.org
  • to have as a possession.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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