ARSHIN is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. ARSHIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARSHIN?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARSHIN is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARSHIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARSHIN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ARSHIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 51,100.
What does ARSHIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An old Russian measure of length, about twenty-eight inches.
Merchants in Russia once measured cloth and ribbon by the arshin, and the unit stayed in use until metric measures replaced it in the early twentieth century. It was divided into sixteen smaller parts called vershoks. The word is also spelled in several other ways in English, but arshin is the form seen most often in older travel books.
How ARSHIN is used
Historical; met in older texts about Russian trade and in lists of obsolete units.
- The shopkeeper sold silk by the arshin.
- An arshin is a little more than seventy centimetres.
- She measured the cloth with a wooden arshin.
- The old ledger priced linen per arshin.
- He converted each arshin into metres for the museum label.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARSHIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ARSHIN
The 6 tiles of ARSHIN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ARSHIN
3 longer words begin with ARSHIN.
Shorter words from the letters in ARSHIN
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Common questions about ARSHIN
- Is ARSHIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARSHIN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARSHIN worth?
- ARSHIN is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARSHIN mean?
- An old Russian measure of length, about twenty-eight inches.
- What letters can be added to ARSHIN?
- ARSHIN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ARSHIN:
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