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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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3-letter words (3 found)

NOW,OWN,WON,

2-letter words (4 found)

NO,ON,OW,WO,

You can make 7 words from own according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of own

own

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əʊn/
  • (General American) enPR: ōn, IPA(key): /oʊn/
  • (Hong Kong) IPA(key): /uŋ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊn

Etymology 1

From Middle English owen, aȝen, from Old English āgen (“own, proper, peculiar”), originally the past participle of āgan; from Proto-West Germanic *aigan (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to have, possess”).

Also cognate with Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvará, “able to do, capable of; owner, master”).

Alternative forms

  • owne (obsolete)
  • 'n (informal contraction)

Adjective

own (not comparable)

  2. Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
  3. Not shared.
  4. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
  5. (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
Translations

Etymology 2

A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.

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; to acquire a property or asset.
  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.
  4. (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
  5. (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.
    Synonym: 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.
    Synonyms: pwn, 0wn
  7. (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
  8. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
  9. (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
  10. (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
  11. (transitive) To take responsibility for.
  12. (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
  13. (transitive) To claim as one's own.
  14. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
Synonyms
  • (have rightful possession of): to possess, acquire, have to one's name, property of, titled to
  • (defeat): beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “admit”): disown
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

own (plural owns)

  1. (Internet slang) A crushing insult.
Derived terms
  • self-own

References

  • Universal Dictionary of the English Language [UDEL], volume 3, 1896, page 3429: “To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to.”
  • ibid., UDEL, 1896
  • ibid., UDEL, 1896
  • ibid., UDEL, 1896

Anagrams

  • NOW, NWO, now, won

Cornish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *oβn, from Proto-Celtic *oβnus. Cognate with Welsh ofn.

Noun

own m

  1. fear, -phobia
  2. alarm
  3. fright, scare
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Adjective

own

  1. Revived Late Cornish form of ewn (“accurate”)

Portuguese

Interjection

own

  1. aw (used to express affection)

Yola

Pronoun

own

  1. alternative form of oan

Adjective

own

  1. alternative form of oan

References


Source: wiktionary.org