BIFFIN is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. BIFFIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BIFFIN?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BIFFIN is to know. It scores 14 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BIFFIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BIFFIN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BIFFIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| f | 2 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,759 thousand.
What does BIFFIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
A deep red variety of cooking apple, or a baked apple that has been pressed flat and dried.
The biffin is tied to Norfolk, where the apples were slowly baked in a cool oven and flattened into leathery cakes that kept for weeks. Sold in shops and at markets, the dried biffin was a winter sweet in Victorian England. The word is now mostly met in food history and in descriptions of old regional fruit.
How BIFFIN is used
Regional and mostly historical; most often seen in writing about traditional English cooking.
- She baked a tray of each biffin until the skins turned dark and wrinkled.
- A biffin from Norfolk was once a common winter treat.
- The grocer kept a single biffin wrapped in paper for the child.
- Not every cook knew that a biffin could be pressed flat while still warm.
- The orchard book lists the biffin among the old cooking varieties.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BIFFIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BIFFIN
2 longer words begin with BIFFIN.
Shorter words from the letters in BIFFIN
Common questions about BIFFIN
- Is BIFFIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BIFFIN, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BIFFIN worth?
- BIFFIN is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BIFFIN mean?
- A deep red variety of cooking apple, or a baked apple that has been pressed flat and dried.
- What letters can be added to BIFFIN?
- BIFFIN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BIFFIN:
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