INSANE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. INSANE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept INSANE?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful INSANE is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for INSANE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
insanerChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How INSANE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in INSANE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,440.
What stands out about INSANE
- 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 INSANE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Seriously mentally ill, or so extreme and irrational that it seems to come from a disordered mind.
Insane originally described a person suffering from serious, disabling mental illness, a clinical sense that older laws and institutions once used quite literally, as in the phrase insane asylum. Modern clinical language avoids the word, preferring more precise diagnostic terms, so insane now survives mainly in legal contexts and in everyday exaggeration. In casual speech, people call a plan, a price, or a stunt insane simply to mean reckless, extreme, or hard to believe, with no reference to mental illness at all. That shift from a clinical label to an all-purpose intensifier is one of the clearer examples of a word's meaning drifting over time.
How INSANE is used
Common in everyday speech as an intensifier for anything extreme; the older clinical sense survives mainly in legal writing.
- The lawyer argued that the defendant was legally insane at the time.
- Driving that fast in the storm was an insane risk to take.
- Old records describe the building as an insane asylum.
- She thought the ticket price was insane for a single show.
- His insane grin worried everyone at the table.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of INSANE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of INSANE
The 6 tiles of INSANE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with INSANE
5 longer words begin with INSANE.
Shorter words from the letters in INSANE
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Common questions about INSANE
- Is INSANE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts INSANE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is INSANE worth?
- INSANE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does INSANE mean?
- Seriously mentally ill, or so extreme and irrational that it seems to come from a disordered mind.
- What letters can be added to INSANE?
- INSANE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of INSANE:
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