ENCINA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ENCINA 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 ENCINA?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENCINA is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENCINA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENCINA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ENCINA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 40,880.
What stands out about ENCINA
- The same 6 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ENCINA mean in Scrabble?
noun
regionalNorth Americanbotany
An evergreen oak, especially the live oak native to California and the southwestern United States.
Encina is the Spanish word for oak, and it survives in English mainly in the place names and local speech of California and the Southwest, where Spanish-speaking settlers named groves after the tree long before the region had English place names. In botanical use it refers specifically to species of live oak, which keep their leaves through the winter rather than losing them like most oaks. The word appears in older travel writing and regional histories describing the broad, shady trees that once dotted the California landscape.
How ENCINA is used
Mostly found in regional and historical writing about California and the American Southwest rather than in general everyday use.
- A single old encina still shaded the courtyard of the mission.
- Early settlers built their ranch beside a grove of encina trees.
- The hillside was covered with encina, their leaves dark green all winter.
- Local maps still mark the site of the great encina that once stood there.
- Researchers studied how the encina survived the region's long dry summers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENCINA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ENCINA
The 6 tiles of ENCINA in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with ENCINA
2 longer words begin with ENCINA.
Shorter words from the letters in ENCINA
Common questions about ENCINA
- Is ENCINA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENCINA, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENCINA worth?
- ENCINA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENCINA mean?
- An evergreen oak, especially the live oak native to California and the southwestern United States.
- What letters can be added to ENCINA?
- ENCINA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ENCINA:
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