AIA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 3 points
It depends on the list you play by. AIA is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 3 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AIA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AIA is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 9.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AIA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AIA scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in AIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 499.
What stands out about AIA
- AIA is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
- Every letter in AIA is a vowel, which makes it a way out of a rack with nothing but vowels on it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does AIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalIndian English
A nursemaid or lady's maid employed by a European household, especially in colonial India.
An aia looked after children or attended to a lady of the house, a role common in colonial homes across South and Southeast Asia. The word appears often in memoirs and letters from that period.
How AIA is used
Historical; associated with colonial-era South and Southeast Asia.
- The children were left in the care of their aia each afternoon.
- Letters home often mentioned the family's devoted aia.
- The aia carried the baby out to the veranda for air.
- She had been the household's aia for over twenty years.
- The memoir describes the aia singing the children to sleep.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AIA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AIA
1 longer words begin with AIA.
Words ending in AIA
4 words end in AIA. Useful as a back hook: play AIA onto a word already on the board.
Words with AIA inside
Showing 24 of 26 words that contain AIA somewhere in the middle. Words that start with AIA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AIA
Common questions about AIA
- Is AIA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AIA is not in it.
- How many points is AIA worth?
- AIA is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AIA mean?
- A nursemaid or lady's maid employed by a European household, especially in colonial India.
- What letters can be added to AIA?
- AIA takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of AIA:
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