YEANLING is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. YEANLING is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept YEANLING?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YEANLING is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YEANLING
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
yeanlingsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How YEANLING scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in YEANLING, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so YEANLING has to be built on the board across turns.
What does YEANLING mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
A young lamb or kid.
Yeanling comes from the old verb to yean, meaning to give birth to a lamb or kid, so a yeanling is just such a newborn. It lives mostly in farming history and rustic poetry, and word-game players know it for its odd letters.
How YEANLING is used
Rare and old-fashioned; used for a lamb or kid when a writer wants a pastoral tone.
- A shaky yeanling stood up beside the ewe in the cold barn.
- The shepherd carried a weak yeanling inside to warm it.
- Spring brought a yeanling to nearly every pen on the farm.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YEANLING and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with YEANLING
1 longer words begin with YEANLING.
Shorter words from the letters in YEANLING
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Common questions about YEANLING
- Is YEANLING valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YEANLING, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YEANLING worth?
- YEANLING is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YEANLING mean?
- A young lamb or kid.
- What letters can be added to YEANLING?
- YEANLING takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of YEANLING:
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