BLINY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BLINY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BLINY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BLINY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BLINY
No single letter turns BLINY into another word.
How BLINY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BLINY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does BLINY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Small, thick pancakes made from yeasted buckwheat or wheat flour, traditionally served with sour cream, butter, or caviar.
Bliny come from Russian and wider Eastern European cooking, where the batter rests until it rises before each pancake is cooked on a hot griddle, giving bliny a springy texture unlike a thin French crepe. In Russian the singular is blin and bliny is already the plural, but English menus and cookbooks usually treat bliny as the word itself, whether one pancake is meant or a stack of them. Bliny appear at celebrations such as Maslenitsa, the pre-Lenten festival, where their round golden shape is linked to the sun.
How BLINY is used
Found mainly on menus and in recipes for Russian and Eastern European food; "blini" is an equally common spelling.
- The cafe served bliny with smoked salmon and sour cream.
- She stacked the bliny on a warm plate as each one finished cooking.
- Their grandmother taught them to fold caviar into hot bliny.
- Vendors sold bliny with honey during the spring festival.
- The recipe lets the bliny batter rise for an hour before cooking.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BLINY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BLINY
Common questions about BLINY
- Is BLINY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BLINY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BLINY worth?
- BLINY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BLINY mean?
- Small, thick pancakes made from yeasted buckwheat or wheat flour, traditionally served with sour cream, butter, or caviar.
- What letters can be added to BLINY?
- No single letter can be added to BLINY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BLINY:
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