What does DUN mean?

DUN is a valid word in the ENABLE word game list, worth 4 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends.

Pronunciation
/dʌn/
Letters
3
Scrabble score
4
Words With Friends score
6
How common
Fairly common

Meaning

noun

  1. horse of a dull brownish grey color
  2. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color“she wore dun”

adjective

  1. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color“the dun and dreary prairie”

verb

  1. treat cruelly“The children tormented the stuttering teacher”
  2. persistently ask for overdue payment“The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone”
  3. cure by salting“dun codfish”
  4. make a dun color

Definitions from Princeton WordNet 3.0.

Other forms

duns5dunned8dunner7dunnest8dunning9

Anagrams of DUN

No other word in the ENABLE list uses exactly these letters.

Words inside DUN

2 shorter words can be made from these letters. Here are the most useful.

nu2 un2

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Questions

Is DUN a Scrabble word?

DUN is in the ENABLE word list, which many word games use, so it is very likely to be accepted in Scrabble and Words With Friends. Official tournament dictionaries differ slightly, so check your game's own dictionary if a play is challenged.

How many points is DUN worth?

DUN is worth 4 points with Scrabble letter values and 6 with Words With Friends values, before any bonus squares.

What words can you make from DUN?

2 other words, including UN and NU.