CATLIN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CATLIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CATLIN?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CATLIN is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CATLIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CATLIN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CATLIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 51,100.
What does CATLIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalmedical
A long, narrow, double-edged surgical knife formerly used for amputations.
A catlin was a slender, pointed blade with cutting edges on both sides, designed so a surgeon could make a single deep, clean cut straight through a limb during an amputation, before modern anaesthesia and antiseptic surgery. Older surgical instrument sets from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries commonly included a catlin alongside saws and other amputation knives. The word survives today mainly in histories of surgery and museum descriptions of antique medical instruments, and is also spelled catling.
How CATLIN is used
A historical medical term, met mainly in the history of surgery rather than modern medicine.
- The museum displayed an old catlin among the surgeon's instruments.
- Surgeons once used a catlin to complete a swift amputation.
- The catalogue listed a nineteenth-century catlin with an ivory handle.
- Historians described the catlin as essential to early field surgery.
- A rusted catlin was found in the abandoned field hospital kit.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CATLIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CATLIN
The 6 tiles of CATLIN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CATLIN
5 longer words begin with CATLIN.
Shorter words from the letters in CATLIN
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Common questions about CATLIN
- Is CATLIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CATLIN, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CATLIN worth?
- CATLIN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CATLIN mean?
- A long, narrow, double-edged surgical knife formerly used for amputations.
- What letters can be added to CATLIN?
- CATLIN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CATLIN:
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