SUINT is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SUINT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SUINT?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SUINT is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SUINT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
suintsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SUINT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SUINT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about SUINT
- 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 SUINT mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The natural grease and dried sweat found in unwashed sheep's wool, consisting largely of potassium salts from the sheep's skin secretions.
Suint builds up on a sheep's fleece from its own sweat glands and, together with lanolin, gives raw wool its characteristic greasy, slightly yellow feel before it is scoured. Textile chemists value suint because its potassium salts are water soluble and can be washed out of the fleece and later recovered, unlike the fattier lanolin. Wool graders and manufacturers weigh suint content when judging how much a raw fleece will lose during cleaning. The word is used almost exclusively within the wool and textile industries.
How SUINT is used
Technical, used in the wool and textile trade for the water soluble grease on raw fleece before scouring.
- The scouring plant washed the suint out of each fleece before spinning.
- Wool heavy with suint weighed noticeably more than the cleaned fibre.
- Chemists extracted potassium salts recovered from the suint for other uses.
- The grader noted the suint content when pricing the raw wool.
- Rain had already washed some suint from the sheep's back before shearing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SUINT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SUINT
The 5 tiles of SUINT in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SUINT
1 longer words begin with SUINT.
Shorter words from the letters in SUINT
Common questions about SUINT
- Is SUINT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SUINT, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SUINT worth?
- SUINT is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SUINT mean?
- The natural grease and dried sweat found in unwashed sheep's wool, consisting largely of potassium salts from the sheep's skin secretions.
- What letters can be added to SUINT?
- SUINT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SUINT:
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