STIRP is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. STIRP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STIRP?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STIRP is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STIRP
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
stirpsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How STIRP scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in STIRP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about STIRP
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 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 STIRP mean in Scrabble?
noun
rarelegal
A family line or stock descended from a common ancestor, especially as reckoned for inheritance or genealogy.
A stirp names an entire branch of a family traced back to one shared ancestor, the sense still active in the legal Latin phrase per stirpes, which divides an inheritance among descendants by branch rather than by counting heads. Genealogists reach for stirp when describing how one line of a family separated from another generations ago, tracing each stirp forward through its own children and grandchildren. Biologists once borrowed the same word for a lineage or race within a species, a use now largely replaced by more precise modern terms. Outside legal and genealogical writing, stirp is rarely spoken, and most readers meet it only inside the fixed phrase per stirpes on a will or estate document.
How STIRP is used
A rare, mostly written term, met chiefly in genealogy and in the legal phrase per stirpes describing how an inheritance is divided among family branches.
- The genealogist traced the stirp back six generations to a single settler.
- The will divided the estate per stirpes, giving each stirp an equal share.
- Two branches of the stirp had settled on opposite sides of the river.
- Historians debated whether the royal stirp had truly died out.
- Each stirp within the family kept its own private burial ground.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STIRP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of STIRP
The 5 tiles of STIRP in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with STIRP
4 longer words begin with STIRP.
Shorter words from the letters in STIRP
Common questions about STIRP
- Is STIRP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STIRP, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STIRP worth?
- STIRP is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STIRP mean?
- A family line or stock descended from a common ancestor, especially as reckoned for inheritance or genealogy.
- What letters can be added to STIRP?
- STIRP takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of STIRP:
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