ANILIN is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ANILIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANILIN?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANILIN is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANILIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ANILIN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ANILIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 61,320.
What does ANILIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistryarchaic
An older spelling of aniline, an oily, colorless liquid derived from benzene and used chiefly in making dyes.
Anilin was the standard spelling in earlier chemistry texts, particularly those translated from German, before the form aniline settled as the usual English spelling. The compound gave its name to the whole aniline dye industry that transformed textile coloring in the nineteenth century. Though the substance is toxic in concentrated form, its dyes made bright, affordable colors available for the first time to ordinary manufacturers.
How ANILIN is used
A dated chemical spelling, replaced by aniline in current scientific usage.
- The nineteenth-century manual spells the compound anilin throughout.
- Early dye chemists worked with anilin long before safety rules existed.
- The translated German paper kept the original spelling anilin.
- Anilin production sparked a whole new branch of the chemical industry.
- Historians of chemistry still encounter the spelling anilin in old sources.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANILIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ANILIN
7 longer words begin with ANILIN.
Shorter words from the letters in ANILIN
Common questions about ANILIN
- Is ANILIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANILIN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANILIN worth?
- ANILIN is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANILIN mean?
- An older spelling of aniline, an oily, colorless liquid derived from benzene and used chiefly in making dyes.
- What letters can be added to ANILIN?
- ANILIN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ANILIN:
Open ANILIN in the Word Finder