CRINE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. CRINE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CRINE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CRINE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRINE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CRINE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CRINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What does CRINE mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scotsdialect
To shrink or shrivel, in Scots dialect usage.
Older field records and rural speech used crine for fruit, skin, or cloth that had dried out and drawn tightly in on itself over time, in the same way people today might say something has withered or wizened. The word traces back to a northern British vernacular and rarely turns up now outside specialist glossaries.
How CRINE is used
Found mainly in older Scots dialect writing.
- The apples began to crine after weeks in storage.
- Cold weather made the old leather crine and crack.
- Her hands seemed to crine in the biting wind.
- The plant will crine quickly without enough water.
- He watched the grapes crine into raisins on the vine.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRINE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CRINE
The 5 tiles of CRINE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CRINE
2 longer words begin with CRINE.
Words ending in CRINE
16 words end in CRINE. Useful as a back hook: play CRINE onto a word already on the board.
Words with CRINE inside
7 words contain CRINE in the middle. Words that start with CRINE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CRINE
Common questions about CRINE
- Is CRINE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CRINE is not in it.
- How many points is CRINE worth?
- CRINE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRINE mean?
- To shrink or shrivel, in Scots dialect usage.
- What letters can be added to CRINE?
- CRINE takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CRINE:
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