Bassoon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 104 anagrams from letters in bassoon (abnooss).
1720-30; French basson Italian bassone (bass(o) low (see base2) + -one augmentative suffix)
There were eight or ten singers, and they had a bassoon, a flute, and a clarionet.
Nearly allied to these are the clarionet, the hautboy, and bassoon.
A flute sends forth the tones of a flute, not those of a bassoon or a trumpet.
Yet who that has loved either man or bassoon does not know this bitterness?
In 1800 we find the first mention of the use of the bassoon.
Who knows why the bassoon was harsh and wayward and imperious to-night?
Pogliani gave up the bassoon for the fork, spoon, and saucepan.
From this it would seem that our bassoon was not of German origin.
The bassoon, the clarinet, the flute—but how shall we describe them!
The sounds were said to vary between those of the French horn and bassoon.