SABIN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SABIN 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 SABIN?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SABIN is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SABIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SABIN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SABIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What stands out about SABIN
- 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 SABIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A unit used to measure how much sound a surface absorbs, equal to the absorption of one square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface.
A sabin lets acoustic engineers add up the absorbing power of everything in a room, from carpet and curtains to audience seats, so they can predict how quickly sound will die away inside it. A room with more total sabins of absorption sounds duller and quieter, while one with few sabins rings and echoes because sound keeps bouncing off hard, reflective surfaces. The unit is named after Wallace Sabine, the American physicist who founded the modern science of architectural acoustics while working out why a lecture hall at Harvard had such poor sound. Engineers still use the sabin today when designing concert halls, recording studios and other rooms where controlling echo matters.
How SABIN is used
A specialist unit used almost exclusively in architectural and room acoustics.
- The lecture hall needed more sabins of absorption to cut down the echo.
- Acoustic engineers calculated the total sabin rating of every surface in the studio.
- Thick carpet adds far more sabins to a room than a bare wooden floor.
- The concert hall was redesigned after measurements showed too few sabins of absorption.
- A single sabin equals the absorption of one square foot of open window.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SABIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SABIN
The 5 tiles of SABIN in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SABIN
3 longer words begin with SABIN.
Shorter words from the letters in SABIN
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Common questions about SABIN
- Is SABIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SABIN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SABIN worth?
- SABIN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SABIN mean?
- A unit used to measure how much sound a surface absorbs, equal to the absorption of one square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface.
- What letters can be added to SABIN?
- SABIN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SABIN:
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