MINO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. MINO is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept MINO?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MINO is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MINO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MINO scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in MINO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,538.
What does MINO mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
A cape or cloak made from straw or hemp fibres, worn over the shoulders as protection from rain.
A mino covered the wearer from the neck to about the knee and was tied loosely at the throat. Rain ran off the hanging strands the way it runs off a thatched roof, instead of soaking through the cloth. This simple design made the mino a practical shelter for farmers and travellers caught outdoors.
How MINO is used
Rare in English text; met mainly in older descriptions of rural dress and travel writing.
- The farmer pulled on his mino before heading out into the rain.
- Old photographs show workers wearing a mino over bare shoulders.
- Museum visitors examined a mino woven from dried straw.
- The guide explained how a mino kept rainwater from reaching the skin.
- He compared the mino to a simple, wearable thatched roof.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MINO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MINO
16 longer words begin with MINO.
Words ending in MINO
9 words end in MINO. Useful as a back hook: play MINO onto a word already on the board.
Words with MINO inside
Showing 24 of 140 words that contain MINO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with MINO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MINO
Common questions about MINO
- Is MINO valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MINO is not in it.
- How many points is MINO worth?
- MINO is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MINO mean?
- A cape or cloak made from straw or hemp fibres, worn over the shoulders as protection from rain.
- What letters can be added to MINO?
- MINO takes 4 hooks: 2 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of MINO:
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