INHABITANT is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. INHABITANT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept INHABITANT?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful INHABITANT is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for INHABITANT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
inhabitantsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How INHABITANT scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in INHABITANT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 2 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so INHABITANT has to be built on the board across turns.
What does INHABITANT mean in Scrabble?
noun
A person or animal that lives permanently in a particular place.
Unlike a visitor or passing traveller, an inhabitant has made the place a real home. Census takers count inhabitants, and nature writers use the word for creatures of a forest or pond.
How INHABITANT is used
Used for residents of towns, countries and habitats, in both ordinary and scientific writing.
- Every inhabitant of the village came to the harvest fair.
- The deep lake has a strange inhabitant that no diver has photographed.
- Each inhabitant of the island knows the lighthouse keeper.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of INHABITANT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with INHABITANT
1 longer words begin with INHABITANT.
Shorter words from the letters in INHABITANT
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Common questions about INHABITANT
- Is INHABITANT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts INHABITANT, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is INHABITANT worth?
- INHABITANT is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does INHABITANT mean?
- A person or animal that lives permanently in a particular place.
- What letters can be added to INHABITANT?
- INHABITANT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of INHABITANT:
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