PINNER is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PINNER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PINNER?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PINNER is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PINNER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PINNER scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PINNER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 61,320.
What does PINNER mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A close-fitting cap with long hanging flaps, worn pinned to the hair by women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
A pinner took its name from the pins that held its lace flaps in place, sometimes looped up onto the head and sometimes left to hang loose over the shoulders. Portraits and costume histories from the period show the pinner as a mark of a fashionable or well-to-do woman rather than a servant's plain cap. The same word was also once used for a pinafore apron and, separately, for anyone whose job was fastening things with pins.
How PINNER is used
Historical; used in costume history and period fiction rather than modern clothing.
- The portrait showed a lady in a lace pinner with flaps at each side.
- Costume historians date the pinner to the late seventeenth century.
- She pinned up the flaps of her pinner before the dance.
- The museum displayed an embroidered pinner alongside other period headwear.
- Servants wore a plainer style than the fashionable pinner of their mistress.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PINNER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PINNER
1 longer words begin with PINNER.
Shorter words from the letters in PINNER
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Common questions about PINNER
- Is PINNER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PINNER, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PINNER worth?
- PINNER is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PINNER mean?
- A close-fitting cap with long hanging flaps, worn pinned to the hair by women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- What letters can be added to PINNER?
- PINNER takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PINNER:
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