YEELIN is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. YEELIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept YEELIN?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YEELIN is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YEELIN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
yeelinsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How YEELIN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in YEELIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 41,809.
What does YEELIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A person born in the same year as another, a person of the same age.
Yeelin is a Scots word for a contemporary, someone who grew up alongside you and is neither older nor younger. It turns up mainly in Scottish dialect writing and in word lists, and it has almost no use in everyday modern speech. Its first part is the old word for year, which shows how the meaning of "same year" developed.
How YEELIN is used
Scots and dialect; very rare outside dictionaries and word games.
- The old poet called his closest friend a yeelin from the same village.
- Each yeelin in the class remembered the great storm of that winter.
- She married a yeelin of her brother, born within a month of him.
- In the ballad every yeelin is named before the wedding feast begins.
- He found no yeelin left alive to share the old stories.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YEELIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with YEELIN
1 longer words begin with YEELIN.
Shorter words from the letters in YEELIN
Common questions about YEELIN
- Is YEELIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YEELIN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YEELIN worth?
- YEELIN is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YEELIN mean?
- A person born in the same year as another, a person of the same age.
- What letters can be added to YEELIN?
- YEELIN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of YEELIN:
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