BINAL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BINAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BINAL?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BINAL is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BINAL
No single letter turns BINAL into another word.
How BINAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BINAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does BINAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Twofold; consisting of, arranged in, or paired as two parts.
Binal turns up almost exclusively in older dictionaries and specialist writing about pairs or twofold arrangements, where binary would now be the ordinary choice. The word never established itself as widely as binary, which took over the everyday sense of consisting of two in mathematics, computing, and general description. Because binal is so rarely used today, most modern readers meet it only as a dictionary entry rather than in a book or conversation.
How BINAL is used
A rare word, largely displaced by binary; met mainly in older or specialist dictionaries rather than everyday writing.
- The old grammar described a binal construction found in a few ancient languages.
- He used the archaic term binal where a modern writer would say binary.
- The dictionary listed binal as a rare synonym for twofold.
- A binal arrangement of the columns balanced the front of the building.
- Few readers today would recognise binal without checking a dictionary.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BINAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BINAL
The 5 tiles of BINAL in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in BINAL
2 words end in BINAL. Useful as a back hook: play BINAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with BINAL inside
1 words contain BINAL in the middle. Words that start with BINAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BINAL
Common questions about BINAL
- Is BINAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BINAL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BINAL worth?
- BINAL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BINAL mean?
- Twofold; consisting of, arranged in, or paired as two parts.
- What letters can be added to BINAL?
- No single letter can be added to BINAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BINAL:
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