Is TERN a word?

TERN is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words With Friends, has 4 letters, and can be rearranged into 1 other word, plus 5 shorter words built from the same letters.

Yes, TERN is a valid word.

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What does tern mean?

noun: small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.

Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.

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TERN is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.

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What does TERN mean?

TERN is a noun. It means: small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.

Is TERN a valid word?

Yes, TERN is a valid word. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words With Friends.

Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.