HOMININE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. HOMININE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOMININE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOMININE is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOMININE
No single letter turns HOMININE into another word.
How HOMININE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in HOMININE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HOMININE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does HOMININE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to or characteristic of humans and their closest primate relatives in the subfamily Homininae.
The hominine group is a narrower category than all great apes, and scientists use the word when tracing the line that leads to people. As a noun it names one member of that group.
How HOMININE is used
Used in anthropology and zoology texts about human and ape ancestry.
- The hominine skull showed a larger brain than expected.
- Researchers studied hominine evolution in Africa.
- Each hominine species left different traces in the soil.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOMININE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HOMININE
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Common questions about HOMININE
- Is HOMININE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOMININE, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOMININE worth?
- HOMININE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOMININE mean?
- Relating to or characteristic of humans and their closest primate relatives in the subfamily Homininae.
- What letters can be added to HOMININE?
- No single letter can be added to HOMININE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of HOMININE:
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