RAWIN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. RAWIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RAWIN?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RAWIN is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RAWIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RAWIN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RAWIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,909.
What does RAWIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A method of tracking upper-air winds by following a radar-reflecting balloon as it rises through the atmosphere.
Rawin blends radar and wind into a single technical term used by meteorologists tracking conditions high above the ground. A radar station follows a rising balloon fitted with a special reflector, and the changing position of the balloon over time reveals wind speed and direction at different altitudes. When the same balloon also carries instruments measuring temperature, humidity, and pressure, weather services call the combined technique rawinsonde rather than plain rawin.
How RAWIN is used
A specialist meteorological term, encountered mainly in weather-service manuals and technical forecasting literature.
- The weather station launched a rawin balloon just before dawn.
- Rawin data from that afternoon showed strong winds above ten thousand feet.
- Forecasters compared satellite readings against the older rawin measurements.
- The manual explains how to calculate wind shear from rawin tracking.
- Before satellites, rawin was one of the main ways to study upper-level winds.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RAWIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RAWIN
5 longer words begin with RAWIN.
Words with RAWIN inside
22 words contain RAWIN in the middle. Words that start with RAWIN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RAWIN
Common questions about RAWIN
- Is RAWIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RAWIN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RAWIN worth?
- RAWIN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RAWIN mean?
- A method of tracking upper-air winds by following a radar-reflecting balloon as it rises through the atmosphere.
- What letters can be added to RAWIN?
- RAWIN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RAWIN:
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