SWAIN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SWAIN 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 SWAIN?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SWAIN is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SWAIN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
swainsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SWAIN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SWAIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does SWAIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterarypoetic
An old term for a young man, especially one courting a woman as her lover or suitor.
In pastoral poetry a swain was often pictured as a shepherd or country youth living a simple, rustic life, and the word carried a gentle, idealized tone rather than a plain description of a farmhand. Writers used it to name the young man pursuing a woman affection long before suitor became the everyday word for the same role. The term rarely appears in ordinary speech today and survives mainly in older verse, songs, and deliberately old-fashioned writing.
How SWAIN is used
Literary and archaic; found in poetry and older fiction rather than in modern conversation.
- The poem describes a lovesick swain wandering the meadow at dusk.
- Every shepherdess in the old ballad had a faithful swain.
- He played the part of the swain, composing verses for his beloved.
- The old song tells of a swain who lost his heart to a village girl.
- Readers today rarely meet the word swain outside classic literature.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SWAIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SWAIN
The 5 tiles of SWAIN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SWAIN
6 longer words begin with SWAIN.
Words ending in SWAIN
3 words end in SWAIN. Useful as a back hook: play SWAIN onto a word already on the board.
Words with SWAIN inside
7 words contain SWAIN in the middle. Words that start with SWAIN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SWAIN
Common questions about SWAIN
- Is SWAIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SWAIN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SWAIN worth?
- SWAIN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SWAIN mean?
- An old term for a young man, especially one courting a woman as her lover or suitor.
- What letters can be added to SWAIN?
- SWAIN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SWAIN:
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