OSCINE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. OSCINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OSCINE?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OSCINE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OSCINE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
oscinesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OSCINE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OSCINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 28,744.
What stands out about OSCINE
- 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 OSCINE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
zoology
Belonging to the Oscines, the suborder of perching birds that includes most true songbirds.
Oscine birds have a complex, muscular voice box called a syrinx, which lets them produce the layered, often musical calls typical of songbirds such as thrushes, finches and warblers. Ornithologists use oscine to separate this large suborder from other perching birds, the suboscines, whose vocal muscles are simpler and whose calls tend to be more mechanical. The term appears mainly in technical bird classification rather than in casual descriptions of birdsong. Most familiar backyard singers, from robins to sparrows, are oscine species.
How OSCINE is used
A technical term from ornithology, used to classify songbirds rather than to describe their sound directly.
- The field guide grouped robins and larks among the oscine species.
- An oscine syrinx allows far more complex song than a suboscine one produces.
- Most oscine birds learn their songs partly by listening to adults.
- The professor's lecture on oscine anatomy covered the vocal muscles in detail.
- Only a minority of perching birds outside the tropics are non-oscine.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OSCINE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OSCINE
The 6 tiles of OSCINE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with OSCINE
1 longer words begin with OSCINE.
Shorter words from the letters in OSCINE
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Common questions about OSCINE
- Is OSCINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OSCINE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OSCINE worth?
- OSCINE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OSCINE mean?
- Belonging to the Oscines, the suborder of perching birds that includes most true songbirds.
- What letters can be added to OSCINE?
- OSCINE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OSCINE:
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