KIP is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. KIP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept KIP?
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KIP is to know. It scores 9 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KIP
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How KIP scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in KIP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 8,983.
What does KIP mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritish
A sleep or a nap.
Kip is British, and it began as the word for a cheap lodging house before moving from the bed to what happens in it. The same three letters are the currency of Laos, and nothing but the sentence around them keeps the two apart.
How KIP is used
Countable: a kip, two kips. Also a verb — to kip down.
- He had a kip in the van and felt worse afterwards.
- A twenty-minute kip is better than an hour of one.
- She kipped on the sofa and nobody woke her.
- The word kip once meant the lodging house and not the sleep.
- Two kips in one afternoon is a bad sign.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KIP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with KIP
Showing 24 of 26 words that begin with KIP.
Words ending in KIP
5 words end in KIP. Useful as a back hook: play KIP onto a word already on the board.
Words with KIP inside
Showing 24 of 30 words that contain KIP somewhere in the middle. Words that start with KIP are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in KIP
Common questions about KIP
- Is KIP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts KIP, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is KIP worth?
- KIP is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KIP mean?
- A sleep or a nap.
- What letters can be added to KIP?
- KIP takes 5 hooks: 1 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of KIP:
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