WIN is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. WIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WIN?
| 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: 57 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WIN is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 9 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WIN scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in WIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,497.
What does WIN mean in Scrabble?
verb
To be successful in a contest.
Win belongs to a group of verbs that change the vowel for the past — sing and sang, ring and rang — and that pattern is older than English itself. It is dying out slowly: no new verb has joined the group in a thousand years.
How WIN is used
Transitive and intransitive. Also a noun — a win, two wins.
- They win at home and lose everywhere else.
- A win of that margin flatters the performance.
- She is winning the argument and losing the room.
- To win a case is not the same as being right.
- Two wins in a row and everybody forgets the autumn.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WIN
Showing 24 of 389 words that begin with WIN.
Words ending in WIN
8 words end in WIN. Useful as a back hook: play WIN onto a word already on the board.
Words with WIN inside
Showing 24 of 806 words that contain WIN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WIN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WIN
Common questions about WIN
- Is WIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WIN, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WIN worth?
- WIN is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WIN mean?
- To be successful in a contest.
- What letters can be added to WIN?
- WIN takes 9 hooks: 1 in front and 8 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of WIN:
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