CAIRN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. CAIRN 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 CAIRN?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CAIRN is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CAIRN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CAIRN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CAIRN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,909.
What does CAIRN mean in Scrabble?
noun
A mound of rough stones piled up deliberately as a landmark, memorial, or trail marker, often on high or open ground.
Hikers build a cairn to mark a path across bare rock or fog covered ground where no other trail is visible, while older cairns were raised over graves or to commemorate an event. The word comes from Scottish Gaelic and Irish, and cairns of considerable age are still found across the hills of Britain and Ireland. A small breed of Scottish terrier takes its name from the same word because it was once used to hunt vermin among such stone piles.
How CAIRN is used
Common in hiking and outdoor writing, and in descriptions of ancient burial monuments.
- Hikers added a stone to the cairn marking the summit.
- An ancient cairn covered the burial chamber beneath the hill.
- Fog made the trail cairns essential for finding the way down.
- Archaeologists excavated the cairn to study its stone construction.
- They built a small cairn to mark the spot where the climb began.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CAIRN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CAIRN
The 5 tiles of CAIRN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CAIRN
7 longer words begin with CAIRN.
Shorter words from the letters in CAIRN
Common questions about CAIRN
- Is CAIRN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CAIRN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CAIRN worth?
- CAIRN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CAIRN mean?
- A mound of rough stones piled up deliberately as a landmark, memorial, or trail marker, often on high or open ground.
- What letters can be added to CAIRN?
- CAIRN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CAIRN:
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