PIP is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PIP 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 PIP?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PIP is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PIP
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PIP scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in PIP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 2 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 17,967.
What stands out about PIP
- PIP is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PIP mean in Scrabble?
noun
A small seed in a fruit such as an apple.
Pip does four unrelated jobs: the seed, the spot on a card or a die, the star on an officer's shoulder, and the short high note in a time signal. Only the first is old; the others arrived separately across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
How PIP is used
Countable: a pip, two pips.
- The apple had three pips and no core to speak of.
- He gained a pip and lost a friend.
- The six pips mark the hour on the radio.
- A card with four pips is a four.
- Two pips in a grape means it is not a modern variety.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PIP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PIP
Showing 24 of 91 words that begin with PIP.
Words with PIP inside
Showing 24 of 102 words that contain PIP somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PIP are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PIP
Common questions about PIP
- Is PIP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PIP, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PIP worth?
- PIP is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PIP mean?
- A small seed in a fruit such as an apple.
- What letters can be added to PIP?
- PIP takes 5 hooks: 0 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of PIP:
Open PIP in the Word Finder