RAVIN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. RAVIN 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 RAVIN?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RAVIN is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RAVIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RAVIN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RAVIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,909.
What does RAVIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
Rapacious plunder or seizure of prey by violence; the act of ravening or devouring greedily.
Ravin belongs to the same word family as ravenous and rapacious, all tracing back to a Latin root meaning to seize by force. Older English texts used ravin for the violent taking of prey by a wolf or bird, or more broadly for any greedy, forcible seizure of goods. The word faded from common use as ravenous and predatory took over its territory, and today ravin survives mainly in older literature and lists of archaic vocabulary.
How RAVIN is used
Archaic and literary; rarely used outside older texts or deliberately antiquated writing.
- The old sermon warned against ravin and cruelty toward the weak.
- Chroniclers described the raiders ravin across the countryside in grim detail.
- The wolf ravin left little trace of the flock by morning.
- Poets once used ravin to suggest violence hidden beneath calm words.
- The translator kept the archaic word ravin rather than modernizing it to plunder.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RAVIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RAVIN
The 5 tiles of RAVIN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with RAVIN
8 longer words begin with RAVIN.
Words with RAVIN inside
23 words contain RAVIN in the middle. Words that start with RAVIN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RAVIN
Common questions about RAVIN
- Is RAVIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RAVIN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RAVIN worth?
- RAVIN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RAVIN mean?
- Rapacious plunder or seizure of prey by violence; the act of ravening or devouring greedily.
- What letters can be added to RAVIN?
- RAVIN takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RAVIN:
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