Pone in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Pone

You can make 18 words from 'pone' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'pone'
• 3 letters words from 'pone'
• 2 letters words from 'pone'

4 letters words from 'pone'

NOPE 6	OPEN 6
PEON 6	PONE 6

3 letters words from 'pone'

EON 3	NEP 5
ONE 3	OPE 5
PEN 5

2 letters words from 'pone'

EN 2	NE 2
NO 2	OE 2
ON 2	OP 4
PE 4	PO 4

Definitions and meaning of pone

pone

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman pone and its source, Late Latin pone, from Latin pōne, imperative form of pōnere (“to place”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊni/
• (US) enPR: pōʹnē, IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊni/
• Homophone: pony

Noun

pone (plural pones)

1. (law, historical) A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
2. (law, historical) A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.

Etymology 2

From Powhatan apones, appoans (“bread”), from Proto-Algonquian *apwa·n (“thing which has been baked or roasted”), whence also Abenaki abôn (“bread”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

Noun

pone (countable and uncountable, plural pones)

1. (Southern US) A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
   • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, page 11:

     ‘Maybe you could fetch me just a little piece of pone,’ I said, pleading, thinking: Big talk will fetch you nothing but nigger talk might work.

Derived terms

• corn pone

See also

• hominy grits

Etymology 3

Perhaps from Latin ponere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊni/
• (US) enPR: pōʹnē, IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊni/
• Homophone: pony

Noun

pone (plural pones)

1. (card games, chiefly US) The last player to bet or play in turn.

Anagrams

• Nope, nope, open, peno-, peon

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Ainu

Etymology

Possibly cognate to Japanese 骨(ほね) (hone), Korean 뼈 (ppyeo, “bone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pòꜛné/

Noun

pone (Kana spelling ポネ)

1. bone

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Interlingua

Verb

pone

1. present of poner
2. imperative of poner

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: pó‧ne

Verb

pone

1. third-person singular present indicative of porre

Anagrams

• peno, penò

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.ne/, [ˈpoːnɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ne/, [ˈpɔːnɛ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *pozni, from Proto-Indo-European *pós-ni, from *pós. Related to post.

Preposition

pōne (+ accusative)

1. behind; in the rear of

Adverb

pōne (not comparable)

1. after, back, behind, in the rear

Etymology 2

Verb

pōne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pōnō

References

• pone in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pone in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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Old French

Noun

pone m (oblique plural pones, nominative singular pones, nominative plural pone)

1. pone (type of writ)

Descendants

• → English: pone

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Spanish

Verb

pone

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of poner.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of poner.

Source: wiktionary.org

• a kind of corn bread.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)