BRINE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BRINE 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 BRINE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BRINE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BRINE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BRINE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BRINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What does BRINE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Water that has been strongly saturated with salt, used especially for pickling, preserving, or curing food.
Cooks soak vegetables, meat, or cheese in brine to draw out moisture and add flavor, a preservation method that predates refrigeration by thousands of years. The word brine also refers poetically to the sea itself, since ocean water is naturally salty, so older writing sometimes calls the ocean simply the brine. Pickle makers carefully balance the salt concentration of brine, because too little allows spoilage while too much can make food inedibly salty. Industrial food producers still rely on brine tanks today to cure products such as ham, olives, and sauerkraut on a large scale.
How BRINE is used
Common in cooking and food preservation, and occasionally used poetically to mean the sea.
- The cucumbers sat in brine for three days before becoming pickles.
- Sailors of old described the endless brine stretching to the horizon.
- The recipe called for a strong brine to cure the pork properly.
- She tasted the brine to check whether it needed more salt.
- Olives are traditionally packed and shipped in barrels of brine.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BRINE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BRINE
The 5 tiles of BRINE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BRINE
7 longer words begin with BRINE.
Words ending in BRINE
4 words end in BRINE. Useful as a back hook: play BRINE onto a word already on the board.
Words with BRINE inside
3 words contain BRINE in the middle. Words that start with BRINE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BRINE
Common questions about BRINE
- Is BRINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BRINE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BRINE worth?
- BRINE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BRINE mean?
- Water that has been strongly saturated with salt, used especially for pickling, preserving, or curing food.
- What letters can be added to BRINE?
- BRINE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BRINE:
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