POIND is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. POIND 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 POIND?
| 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 POIND is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POIND
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
poindsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POIND scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in POIND, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does POIND mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scotslegalhistorical
To seize and hold a debtor's movable property under old Scots law as security for an unpaid debt, a legal process known as poinding.
A Scottish court officer who moved to poind a household would draw up a formal list of goods found on the premises, then hold or sell enough of them to cover what the family owed. The old procedure applied chiefly to movable belongings such as furniture, livestock and farm equipment, while claims against land followed an entirely separate route through the courts. Reforms eventually swept away the power to poind, replacing it with modern diligence procedures, so today the term survives mainly in legal histories and old Scottish statutes. Historians researching unpaid arrears in Scotland still meet poind and its noun form poinding when reading records from before those reforms.
How POIND is used
A historical Scots legal term, met mainly in accounts of Scottish law before it was replaced by modern debt-enforcement procedures.
- The sheriff's officer moved to poind the farmer's cattle for the unpaid rent.
- Scots law once let a landlord poind the movable goods of a tenant in arrears.
- Historians described how creditors could poind household furniture centuries ago.
- The old statute set out exactly what a creditor could poind and what was exempt.
- Modern diligence law replaced the ancient power to poind a debtor's belongings.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POIND and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with POIND
6 longer words begin with POIND.
Shorter words from the letters in POIND
Common questions about POIND
- Is POIND valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POIND, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POIND worth?
- POIND is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POIND mean?
- To seize and hold a debtor's movable property under old Scots law as security for an unpaid debt, a legal process known as poinding.
- What letters can be added to POIND?
- POIND takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of POIND:
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