CAIN is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. CAIN 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 CAIN?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CAIN is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CAIN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cainsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CAIN scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CAIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,034.
What does CAIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
Rent paid in produce rather than in money.
Cain was normal where coin was scarce: so many hens at Christmas, so much meal at harvest, written into the lease and collected by cart. It survives in Scots and Irish legal history and in a few place names, and the arrangement itself outlasted the word by a very long way.
How CAIN is used
Uncountable: paid in cain. Historical; also spelled kain.
- The lease sets the cain at twelve hens a year.
- Cain was collected before money rent replaced it.
- A tenant paying cain kept no accounts worth the name.
- The estate took cain in meal and sold it on.
- The word cain survives in the record and not in speech.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CAIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CAIN
4 longer words begin with CAIN.
Words ending in CAIN
4 words end in CAIN. Useful as a back hook: play CAIN onto a word already on the board.
Words with CAIN inside
Showing 24 of 44 words that contain CAIN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CAIN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CAIN
Common questions about CAIN
- Is CAIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CAIN, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CAIN worth?
- CAIN is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CAIN mean?
- Rent paid in produce rather than in money.
- What letters can be added to CAIN?
- CAIN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CAIN:
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