BLIN is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. BLIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BLIN?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BLIN is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BLIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BLIN scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BLIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does BLIN mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To give up or come to a halt, in the archaic verb Spenser and other early poets used before cease and stop took over.
Writers of earlier English, including Spenser, used blin for coming to a halt or giving something up, so that a knight who would not blin from his quest simply refused to stop pursuing it. The word dropped out of ordinary use once cease and stop became the standard choices, and it now survives only in older poetry and its imitators.
How BLIN is used
Archaic; found in early and imitation-archaic poetry rather than modern writing.
- The knight vowed he would not blin till the battle was won.
- She read how the rain did blin at last.
- The old poem urges the wanderer to blin from his sorrow.
- He would neither blin nor rest until the task was done.
- The minstrel sang on and would not blin for anyone.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BLIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BLIN
Showing 24 of 65 words that begin with BLIN.
Words ending in BLIN
3 words end in BLIN. Useful as a back hook: play BLIN onto a word already on the board.
Words with BLIN inside
Showing 24 of 253 words that contain BLIN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BLIN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BLIN
Common questions about BLIN
- Is BLIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BLIN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BLIN worth?
- BLIN is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BLIN mean?
- To give up or come to a halt, in the archaic verb Spenser and other early poets used before cease and stop took over.
- What letters can be added to BLIN?
- BLIN takes 6 hooks: 0 in front and 6 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BLIN:
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