ATTAINT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ATTAINT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ATTAINT?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ATTAINT is to know. It scores 7 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ATTAINT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
attaintsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ATTAINT scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in ATTAINT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 3 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 411,717.
What does ATTAINT mean in Scrabble?
verb
legalarchaic
To condemn someone by a legal sentence that strips them of rights and property.
Historically a person attainted for treason or felony lost their civil rights and their heirs lost the inheritance. The word also carried the looser sense of staining or corrupting, as with disease or disgrace.
How ATTAINT is used
Attaint belongs to old legal and literary English and is rare today.
- Parliament voted to attaint the rebel lord.
- Once attainted, he could leave nothing to his sons.
- Fever began to attaint the whole camp.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ATTAINT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ATTAINT
7 longer words begin with ATTAINT.
Shorter words from the letters in ATTAINT
Common questions about ATTAINT
- Is ATTAINT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ATTAINT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ATTAINT worth?
- ATTAINT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ATTAINT mean?
- To condemn someone by a legal sentence that strips them of rights and property.
- What letters can be added to ATTAINT?
- ATTAINT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of ATTAINT:
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