COVIN is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. COVIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COVIN?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COVIN is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COVIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COVIN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in COVIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does COVIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
legalarchaic
A secret agreement between two or more people to defraud or harm another person.
Covin comes from old legal French and once named any deceitful scheme cooked up between parties, most often to trick or damage someone outside the plot, such as a buyer and seller secretly agreeing to cheat a third party in a sale. Scots law kept the term alive longer than English law did, and covin still turns up occasionally in Scottish legal writing about fraud and collusion. The related adjective covinous describes any agreement or scheme built on that kind of hidden deceit.
How COVIN is used
A specialist, largely historical legal term, still occasionally found in Scots law discussions of fraud.
- The court found evidence of covin between the two merchants.
- Old law texts define covin as a secret plot to defraud a third party.
- Lawyers argued the contract was voided by covin.
- The judge cited a rare case of covin dating back a century.
- Scholars traced the legal use of covin to medieval French sources.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COVIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COVIN
6 longer words begin with COVIN.
Shorter words from the letters in COVIN
Common questions about COVIN
- Is COVIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COVIN, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COVIN worth?
- COVIN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COVIN mean?
- A secret agreement between two or more people to defraud or harm another person.
- What letters can be added to COVIN?
- COVIN takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of COVIN:
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