CINQ is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. CINQ is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CINQ?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CINQ is to know. It scores 15 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CINQ
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cinqsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CINQ scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CINQ, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| q | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 36,308.
What stands out about CINQ
- CINQ takes a Q without a U — one of only 93 words in our lists that do. That is the cheapest way to get rid of the ten-point tile.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CINQ mean in Scrabble?
noun
The number five on a dice or a playing card.
Cinq is French and reached English through gambling, where the French names for the faces of a die were kept wholesale. Ace, deuce and trey survive from the same set, and cinq is the least used of them.
How CINQ is used
Countable: a cinq, two cinqs. Chiefly in games.
- A cinq and a trey make eight.
- The word cinq is French for five.
- Ace, deuce and cinq all came from the same French set.
- Two cinqs in one throw is a good start.
- A cinq is the least used of the old dice names.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CINQ and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CINQ
12 longer words begin with CINQ.
Shorter words from the letters in CINQ
Common questions about CINQ
- Is CINQ valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CINQ, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CINQ worth?
- CINQ is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CINQ mean?
- The number five on a dice or a playing card.
- What letters can be added to CINQ?
- CINQ takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CINQ:
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