BINE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. BINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BINE?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BINE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BINE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BINE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,026.
What stands out about BINE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BINE mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
The twining stem of a climbing plant, especially the hop, that winds itself around a support rather than clinging with tendrils.
A bine climbs by wrapping its whole stem around whatever it grows against, unlike a vine, which more often uses tendrils or suckers to hold on. Hop plants are the best-known example, sending up long bines each year that are trained up strings on a hop farm.
How BINE is used
Technical botanical term, mainly used in discussions of hops and other twining climbers.
- The hop bine had climbed halfway up the pole by June.
- Workers cut down the bines at harvest time.
- A honeysuckle bine wound tightly around the fence post.
- Unlike a vine, a bine has no tendrils to grip with.
- The farmer trained each bine up its own length of string.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BINE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BINE
The 4 tiles of BINE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with BINE
4 longer words begin with BINE.
Words ending in BINE
17 words end in BINE. Useful as a back hook: play BINE onto a word already on the board.
Words with BINE inside
Showing 24 of 97 words that contain BINE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BINE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BINE
Common questions about BINE
- Is BINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BINE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BINE worth?
- BINE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BINE mean?
- The twining stem of a climbing plant, especially the hop, that winds itself around a support rather than clinging with tendrils.
- What letters can be added to BINE?
- BINE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BINE:
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