Sion
4 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A variant spelling of Zion, the ancient hill fortress in Jerusalem captured by King David, later used as a poetic name for Jerusalem and the Promised Land.
“The psalm expressed a deep longing to return to Sion and dwell in its sacred precincts.”
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si·on
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Ends in the very common ION trigraph, three vowels out of four letters make it a useful vowel-elimination guess.
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Worth 4 points, the ION ending opens up many adjacency options on a crowded board.
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