AMARANTHINE is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. AMARANTHINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AMARANTHINE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AMARANTHINE is to know. It scores 16 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AMARANTHINE
No single letter turns AMARANTHINE into another word.
How AMARANTHINE scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in AMARANTHINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 3 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so AMARANTHINE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does AMARANTHINE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literarypoetic
Never fading or dying, or of a deep purplish-red colour like the amaranth flower.
Poets borrowed amaranthine from the imaginary flower that never wilts, so it carries the sense of eternal and undying. Its second sense is a plain colour term for dark reddish purple.
How AMARANTHINE is used
Used in literary writing for lasting love or beauty, and occasionally for a colour.
- Their amaranthine friendship survived decades of separation.
- The poet praised the amaranthine glow of the evening sky.
- She wore an amaranthine silk scarf.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AMARANTHINE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in AMARANTHINE
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Common questions about AMARANTHINE
- Is AMARANTHINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AMARANTHINE, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AMARANTHINE worth?
- AMARANTHINE is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AMARANTHINE mean?
- Never fading or dying, or of a deep purplish-red colour like the amaranth flower.
- What letters can be added to AMARANTHINE?
- No single letter can be added to AMARANTHINE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of AMARANTHINE:
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