OLEIN is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. OLEIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OLEIN?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OLEIN is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OLEIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OLEIN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in OLEIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,631.
What does OLEIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
A liquid fat, chemically a triglyceride of oleic acid, found in olive oil and other animal and vegetable fats.
Olein is the fraction of a fat or oil that stays liquid at room temperature, as opposed to the harder stearin fraction that solidifies more easily. Manufacturers separate palm oil, for instance, into an olein portion used as cooking oil and a stearin portion used in soap and margarine. Chemists also know it by the more precise name triolein, since it is built from three oleic acid chains attached to a glycerol backbone. The word is mostly confined to food science, chemistry, and the oils and fats industry rather than to everyday cooking vocabulary.
How OLEIN is used
A technical term used in chemistry and the fats and oils industry rather than in ordinary kitchen language.
- Refiners split the crude palm oil into olein and stearin fractions.
- Olein remains liquid even when the fridge is cold.
- The label listed palm olein among the cooking oil's ingredients.
- Chemists measured the proportion of olein in the sample.
- Olein is prized in food production for staying pourable at low temperatures.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OLEIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OLEIN
The 5 tiles of OLEIN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OLEIN
3 longer words begin with OLEIN.
Words ending in OLEIN
3 words end in OLEIN. Useful as a back hook: play OLEIN onto a word already on the board.
Words with OLEIN inside
2 words contain OLEIN in the middle. Words that start with OLEIN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OLEIN
Common questions about OLEIN
- Is OLEIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OLEIN, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OLEIN worth?
- OLEIN is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OLEIN mean?
- A liquid fat, chemically a triglyceride of oleic acid, found in olive oil and other animal and vegetable fats.
- What letters can be added to OLEIN?
- OLEIN takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of OLEIN:
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