What HONE Means
- noun: a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
- noun: a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.
- verb: sharpen with a hone“hone a knife”
- verb: make perfect or complete“perfect your French in Paris!”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HONE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 O1 N1 E1.
Words Made From The Letters In HONE
15 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (6)
2 letter words (9)
Longer Words Containing HONE
HONE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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