MINA is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. MINA 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 MINA?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MINA is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MINA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MINA scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in MINA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,034.
What stands out about MINA
- The same 4 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 MINA mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An ancient unit of weight and of money, used in the Near East and in ancient Greece.
A mina measured out a fixed weight of silver or another metal, and because coins were valued by weight, the same word also named a sum of money equal to that weight, most famously one sixtieth of a talent in the Attic system. The word appears in Biblical and classical texts wherever an ancient sum of money is mentioned.
How MINA is used
A historical unit met mainly in translations of ancient and Biblical texts, not in current use.
- The parable tells of a servant given one mina to invest.
- A talent was worth sixty times a single mina.
- Merchants weighed silver against a standard mina.
- The inscribed tablet records a debt of one mina in silver.
- Ancient scribes often recorded payments using the unit called mina.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MINA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MINA
The 4 tiles of MINA in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with MINA
20 longer words begin with MINA.
Words ending in MINA
Showing 24 of 30 words that end in MINA. Useful as a back hook: play MINA onto a word already on the board.
Words with MINA inside
Showing 24 of 713 words that contain MINA somewhere in the middle. Words that start with MINA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MINA
Common questions about MINA
- Is MINA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MINA, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MINA worth?
- MINA is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MINA mean?
- An ancient unit of weight and of money, used in the Near East and in ancient Greece.
- What letters can be added to MINA?
- MINA takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of MINA:
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