PINTA is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PINTA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PINTA?
| 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 PINTA is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PINTA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pintasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PINTA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PINTA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,909.
What stands out about PINTA
- The same 5 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 PINTA mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A skin disease found mainly in tropical parts of Central and South America, caused by a bacterium and marked by patches of discoloured, thickened skin.
Pinta belongs to the same family of diseases as yaws and syphilis, all caused by related spirochaete bacteria, though pinta itself is not sexually transmitted. It spreads through skin contact rather than through blood, and it produces coloured blotches that darken and thicken over years rather than weeks. The name comes from the Spanish word for a stain or spot, describing exactly what the disease leaves on the skin. Doctors distinguish pinta from other tropical skin conditions by the pattern and slow spread of its blotches.
How PINTA is used
Chiefly a medical and historical term, met in accounts of tropical disease rather than in everyday speech.
- The doctor recognised pinta from the pale blotches spreading across the villager's arms.
- Pinta was once common in remote parts of the Amazon before better sanitation reduced it.
- Unlike syphilis, pinta is not spread through sexual contact.
- The textbook listed pinta among the diseases caused by treponemal bacteria.
- Years after the first patches appeared, the pinta had spread across most of his back.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PINTA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PINTA
The 5 tiles of PINTA in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with PINTA
15 longer words begin with PINTA.
Shorter words from the letters in PINTA
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Common questions about PINTA
- Is PINTA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PINTA, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PINTA worth?
- PINTA is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PINTA mean?
- A skin disease found mainly in tropical parts of Central and South America, caused by a bacterium and marked by patches of discoloured, thickened skin.
- What letters can be added to PINTA?
- PINTA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PINTA:
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