PIDGIN is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PIDGIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PIDGIN?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PIDGIN is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PIDGIN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pidginsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PIDGIN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PIDGIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What does PIDGIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
A simplified language that grows up between people with no common tongue, mixing vocabulary from several languages.
A pidgin arises in trade, labour and colonial settings, where speakers need to cooperate but share no language. Its grammar is pared down and its word stock is borrowed, usually mostly from one dominant language. It is nobody's first language at the start; when children later grow up speaking it natively, linguists call the result a creole. The spelling pidgin is standard, although pidgeon is sometimes met as an old variant.
How PIDGIN is used
A linguistic term; also used attributively, as in pidgin English.
- Traders on the coast developed a pidgin from English and local words.
- The pidgin of the port town had almost no verb endings.
- Linguists study how a pidgin becomes a full language within a generation.
- He spoke a halting pidgin that the dockworkers all understood.
- Tok Pisin began as a pidgin and is now spoken at home by many families.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PIDGIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PIDGIN
13 longer words begin with PIDGIN.
Shorter words from the letters in PIDGIN
Common questions about PIDGIN
- Is PIDGIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PIDGIN, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PIDGIN worth?
- PIDGIN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PIDGIN mean?
- A simplified language that grows up between people with no common tongue, mixing vocabulary from several languages.
- What letters can be added to PIDGIN?
- PIDGIN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PIDGIN:
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