VINER is valid in Collins, not in North America — 8 points
It depends on the list you play by. VINER is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 8 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept VINER?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VINER is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VINER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VINER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VINER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What does VINER mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A person who grows grapes or tends a vineyard, a vinedresser.
Viner names the worker who prunes, trains, and harvests vines rather than the person who simply drinks the wine. The word sits alongside vineyard and vintner as part of the same family of terms for the wine trade, though viner focuses on the fieldwork rather than the selling of the finished wine.
How VINER is used
Chiefly historical or regional; modern English favours vinedresser or grower.
- The viner walked the rows checking for mildew.
- Every autumn the viner and his sons brought in the harvest.
- The estate hired a new viner to manage the slopes.
- Her grandfather worked as a viner in the valley for forty years.
- The viner pruned the vines back hard after the frost.
- Local viners gathered to compare this year's yield.
- The old records list the viner's wages by the season.
- A skilled viner can tell when the grapes are ready by taste alone.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VINER and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see VINER
- Viner comes from the same root as vine and vineyard, all tracing back to the Latin vinum for wine.
- Viner stays close in meaning to vinedresser and vintner, though vintner usually refers to a wine merchant rather than a grower.
Anagrams of VINER
The 5 tiles of VINER in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with VINER
3 longer words begin with VINER.
Words ending in VINER
1 words end in VINER. Useful as a back hook: play VINER onto a word already on the board.
Words with VINER inside
3 words contain VINER in the middle. Words that start with VINER are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in VINER
Common questions about VINER
- Is VINER valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and VINER is not in it.
- How many points is VINER worth?
- VINER is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VINER mean?
- A person who grows grapes or tends a vineyard, a vinedresser.
- What letters can be added to VINER?
- VINER takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VINER:
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