THRIP is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. THRIP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THRIP?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THRIP is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THRIP
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
thripsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How THRIP scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in THRIP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does THRIP mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologyinformal
A single individual of the tiny, slender insects properly called thrips, known for feeding on plant sap.
Thrips is unusual because the same word serves as both singular and plural in careful usage, yet many gardeners and casual speakers treat that final s as a plural ending and refer to just one insect as a thrip. A thrip is very small, with narrow, fringed wings, and it feeds by piercing plant tissue and sucking out the sap, often leaving pale scarring on leaves and petals. Large numbers of these insects can seriously damage garden plants and greenhouse crops, which is why the word turns up often in gardening advice about pest control. Although thrips remains the standard scientific form, thrip is widely understood as its everyday singular.
How THRIP is used
Informal singular form of thrips, common in gardening talk rather than in strict scientific writing.
- She spotted a single thrip crawling along the rose petal.
- One thrip on its own does little harm to the plant.
- The gardener sprayed the leaves after finding a thrip on the underside.
- Under the lens, the thrip's narrow wings were just visible.
- A pale scar on the petal showed where a thrip had fed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THRIP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with THRIP
2 longer words begin with THRIP.
Words with THRIP inside
2 words contain THRIP in the middle. Words that start with THRIP are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in THRIP
Common questions about THRIP
- Is THRIP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THRIP, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THRIP worth?
- THRIP is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THRIP mean?
- A single individual of the tiny, slender insects properly called thrips, known for feeding on plant sap.
- What letters can be added to THRIP?
- THRIP takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of THRIP:
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