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Is now a Scrabble word?

Yes, now is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of now?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.Examples: "I think this band's sound is very now."; "Bernard: What does it do? Fran: It's very in. Bernard: You don't know what it is, do you? Fran: It's very now."informalnot-comparable

2. (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.Examples: "now wife"archaicnot-comparable

adv (English)

1. (sentential) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.Examples: "Now, we all want what is best for our children."; "Now, Jimmy, stop that."; "Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so."not-comparable

2. (informal) At the present point of a recurring cycle or event.Examples: "I always used to do my shopping now, to avoid the rush."informalnot-comparable

3. (obsolete, as but now) Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.Examples: "They that but now, for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate."not-comparableobsolete

4. (usually emphasized) Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before.Examples: "Now, you want to protect me. An hour ago, you were mercilessly bullying me!"not-comparable

conj (English)

1. (often with that) Since, because, in light of the fact.Examples: "Now all the children have grown up and left, the house is very quiet."; "Now that my sister has gotten rid of their cat, we can go to her house this coming Thanksgiving."; "We can play football now that the rain has stopped."often

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) The present time.Examples: "Now is the right time."; "There is no better time than now."uncountableusually

2. (often with the) The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.Examples: "She is living in the now."Synonyms: here and now, as-is, here and now, present, nowoftenuncountableusually

3. (countable, chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.Examples: "Forever is composed of Nows— / 'T is not a different time, / Except for infiniteness / And latitude of home."; "Time is not thrust together and summed up out of nows, but the reverse: with reference to the now we can articulate the stretching out of time always only in specific ways."countableusually

name (English)

1. (US) Acronym of National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization.USabbreviationacronymalt-of

noun (English)

1. (US, finance) Acronym of negotiable order of withdrawal (“an instrument similar to a check”).USabbreviationacronymalt-of

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "now"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "now"?

Scrabble
6 points
N1
O1
W4
Words With Friends
7 points
N2
O1
W4

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