BINIT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BINIT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BINIT?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BINIT is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BINIT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
binitsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BINIT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BINIT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does BINIT mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicaltechnical
An early term for a binary digit, the smallest unit of information in binary notation, used in some computing writing before the word bit became standard.
When binary computing was new, several competing short names for a binary digit circulated among engineers, and binit was one of them, formed by shortening binary digit rather than by the blend that produced bit from binary and digit. The word appears in some computing textbooks and technical papers from the middle of the twentieth century, always meaning exactly what a bit means today. Once bit became the standard term across the computing industry, binit fell out of use and now survives mainly as a historical curiosity in the vocabulary of early computing.
How BINIT is used
A largely obsolete technical term, met mainly in older computing literature rather than in current usage, where bit is standard.
- The 1950s manual defined a binit as a single binary digit.
- Early computer designers sometimes preferred binit over the newer word bit.
- The paper used binit throughout, reflecting the terminology of its decade.
- A row of eight binits could represent a single character in that scheme.
- Historians of computing still encounter binit in early technical documents.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BINIT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BINIT
1 longer words begin with BINIT.
Words with BINIT inside
2 words contain BINIT in the middle. Words that start with BINIT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BINIT
Common questions about BINIT
- Is BINIT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BINIT, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BINIT worth?
- BINIT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BINIT mean?
- An early term for a binary digit, the smallest unit of information in binary notation, used in some computing writing before the word bit became standard.
- What letters can be added to BINIT?
- BINIT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BINIT:
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