CRETIN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CRETIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CRETIN?
| 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 CRETIN is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRETIN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cretinsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CRETIN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CRETIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 25,550.
What does CRETIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
informaloffensive
An informal, insulting word for a person regarded as extremely stupid or foolish.
People use cretin to dismiss someone's judgment or intelligence in a sharp, often angry way, much like calling someone an idiot or a fool. The word's harsh edge comes from its older, now outdated clinical use for a person affected by cretinism, a condition of severe physical and intellectual disability caused by untreated congenital thyroid deficiency; because that medical sense stigmatized real patients, doctors no longer use the term and rely on modern diagnostic names instead. What survives in everyday English is mostly the insult, largely stripped of its old medical meaning.
How CRETIN is used
Informal and generally taken as offensive when aimed at a person; avoided in medical writing today in favor of neutral clinical terms.
- He muttered that only a cretin would leave the door unlocked all night.
- She called the driver a cretin after he cut across three lanes.
- The critic dismissed the plan as something only a cretin would approve.
- Losing his temper, he shouted that they were all cretins for missing the deadline.
- The old textbook's clinical use of cretin has since been dropped from medical writing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRETIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CRETIN
14 longer words begin with CRETIN.
Shorter words from the letters in CRETIN
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Common questions about CRETIN
- Is CRETIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CRETIN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CRETIN worth?
- CRETIN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRETIN mean?
- An informal, insulting word for a person regarded as extremely stupid or foolish.
- What letters can be added to CRETIN?
- CRETIN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CRETIN:
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