QUIN is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. QUIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUIN?
| 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: 57 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUIN is to know. It scores 13 from 4 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUIN scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in QUIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What does QUIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritish
One of five children born at a single birth.
Quin is the short form of quintuplet, and it exists because newspapers needed something that fits a headline. Before fertility treatment, quins were rare enough to make national news for years running; the sets that did survive were followed by photographers into adulthood.
How QUIN is used
Countable, nearly always plural — the quins. American English prefers quint.
- The quins were born six weeks early and all five did well.
- A photograph of the quins ran on every front page.
- She is one of the quins, though she never mentions it.
- Feeding quins is a logistical exercise, not a routine.
- The hospital had never delivered quins before.
- Two of the quins went into medicine and one into farming.
- Newspapers followed the quins for thirty years.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUIN and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUIN
Showing 24 of 160 words that begin with QUIN.
Words ending in QUIN
15 words end in QUIN. Useful as a back hook: play QUIN onto a word already on the board.
Words with QUIN inside
Showing 24 of 138 words that contain QUIN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with QUIN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUIN
Common questions about QUIN
- Is QUIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUIN, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUIN worth?
- QUIN is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUIN mean?
- One of five children born at a single birth.
- What letters can be added to QUIN?
- QUIN takes 5 hooks: 0 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of QUIN:
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