QUINS is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. QUINS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUINS?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUINS is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUINS
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
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How QUINS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUINS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does QUINS mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritish
Quintuplets, five children born to the same mother at a single birth; a British informal shortening.
British newspapers reach for quins whenever quintuplets make the news, since the short form fits a headline better than the full word. The quins are almost always spoken of together, as a set, because a multiple birth of five is rare enough that each case becomes a small event in itself. The plural form is the one actually used in speech; a single child from such a birth is occasionally called a quin, but that usage is rarer still.
How QUINS is used
Informal British usage, common in news reports about multiple births; the full form quintuplets is used in formal writing.
- The quins celebrated their first birthday together at the hospital that delivered them.
- Doctors said the quins were healthy despite being born ten weeks early.
- Photographs of the quins in matching outfits appeared in every local paper.
- Raising quins meant five cots crammed into one small nursery.
- The family became local celebrities the moment the quins were born.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUINS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUINS
3 longer words begin with QUINS.
Words ending in QUINS
14 words end in QUINS. Useful as a back hook: play QUINS onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in QUINS
Common questions about QUINS
- Is QUINS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUINS, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUINS worth?
- QUINS is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUINS mean?
- Quintuplets, five children born to the same mother at a single birth; a British informal shortening.
- What letters can be added to QUINS?
- QUINS takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUINS:
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