RHINE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 8 points
It depends on the list you play by. RHINE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 8 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept RHINE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RHINE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RHINE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
rhinesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RHINE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RHINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What does RHINE mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectBritish
An open drainage ditch of the kind that keeps low wet farmland workable.
On the Somerset levels the fields are held dry by a grid of open channels, and a rhine is one of them: wide enough to stop cattle, deep enough to matter, crossed by plank bridges that appear on no map. The spelling wanders between rhine, rhyne and reen, and people who live there disagree about it as firmly as they agree about how it is said.
How RHINE is used
Countable: a rhine, two rhines. Chiefly south-western England; the sound rhymes with green, not with wine.
- A rhine runs along the far edge of every field here.
- The tractor went into the rhine and stayed there till Thursday.
- They clear the rhines every autumn before the rain comes.
- A plank across the rhine served as a gate.
- Water backs up the rhine when the tide is high.
- The path follows the rhine as far as the pumping station.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RHINE and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RHINE
8 longer words begin with RHINE.
Words ending in RHINE
9 words end in RHINE. Useful as a back hook: play RHINE onto a word already on the board.
Words with RHINE inside
7 words contain RHINE in the middle. Words that start with RHINE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RHINE
Common questions about RHINE
- Is RHINE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and RHINE is not in it.
- How many points is RHINE worth?
- RHINE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RHINE mean?
- An open drainage ditch of the kind that keeps low wet farmland workable.
- What letters can be added to RHINE?
- RHINE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RHINE:
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