RAMIN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. RAMIN 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 RAMIN?
| 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 RAMIN 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 RAMIN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
raminsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RAMIN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RAMIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,909.
What stands out about RAMIN
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 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 RAMIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanytechnical
A hardwood tree of Malaysian and Indonesian swamp forests, or the pale, fine-grained timber it produces.
Ramin grows in the peat swamp forests of Southeast Asia and yields a light, straight-grained wood once popular for furniture, mouldings and tool handles because it takes paint and stain evenly. Heavy logging of ramin damaged the same swamp forests that shelter orangutans, and international trade in ramin is now tightly restricted to slow that damage. Timber merchants still distinguish ramin from other pale tropical hardwoods by its fine, even texture, even though far less of it now reaches legal international markets than in past decades.
How RAMIN is used
A technical term from forestry and the timber trade, rarely met outside discussion of tropical hardwoods.
- The cabinet maker preferred ramin for mouldings because it took stain so evenly.
- Conservationists linked the loss of swamp forest directly to ramin logging.
- Export permits now limit how much ramin can leave the country each year.
- The old window frames were made from ramin rather than the oak used today.
- Buyers learned to recognise ramin by its pale colour and fine, even grain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RAMIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RAMIN
The 5 tiles of RAMIN in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with RAMIN
1 longer words begin with RAMIN.
Words ending in RAMIN
1 words end in RAMIN. Useful as a back hook: play RAMIN onto a word already on the board.
Words with RAMIN inside
Showing 24 of 62 words that contain RAMIN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RAMIN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RAMIN
Common questions about RAMIN
- Is RAMIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RAMIN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RAMIN worth?
- RAMIN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RAMIN mean?
- A hardwood tree of Malaysian and Indonesian swamp forests, or the pale, fine-grained timber it produces.
- What letters can be added to RAMIN?
- RAMIN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RAMIN:
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