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Yes. The word ermines is a Scrabble US word. The word ermines is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word ermines is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

ERMINES,

6-letter words (11 found)

ERMINE,INSEEM,MINERS,MISERE,NEREIS,REMENS,REMISE,RENIES,SEINER,SEREIN,SERINE,

5-letter words (33 found)

EMIRS,ERNES,INERM,MEERS,MEINS,MENES,MENSE,MERES,MERIS,MERSE,MESNE,MIENS,MINER,MINES,MIRES,MISER,NEEMS,REENS,REINS,REMEN,RESIN,RIEMS,RIMES,RINES,RINSE,RISEN,SEINE,SEMEN,SEMIE,SERIN,SIREE,SIREN,SNEER,

4-letter words (50 found)

EINE,EMES,EMIR,ENES,ERES,ERNE,ERNS,ESNE,IRES,MEER,MEES,MEIN,MENE,MERE,MERI,MESE,MIEN,MINE,MIRE,MIRS,MISE,NEEM,NIES,NIMS,REEN,REES,REIN,REIS,REMS,RENS,RIEM,RIME,RIMS,RINE,RINS,RISE,SEEM,SEEN,SEER,SEIR,SEME,SEMI,SENE,SERE,SIEN,SINE,SIRE,SMEE,SMIR,SNEE,

3-letter words (36 found)

EEN,EME,EMS,ENE,ENS,ERE,ERM,ERN,ERS,INS,IRE,ISM,MEE,MEN,MES,MIR,MIS,NEE,NIE,NIM,NIS,REE,REI,REM,REN,RES,RIM,RIN,SEE,SEI,SEN,SER,SIM,SIN,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (12 found)

EE,EM,EN,ER,ES,IN,IS,ME,MI,NE,RE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 144 words from ermines according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ermines

ermines

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɜːmɪnz/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɝmɪnz/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪnz

Etymology 1

Attested in this form (with s) since at least 1562, in Legh's Accedens of Armorie, which defines it ("Sable poudred with Argent, [...] Ermines is his proper name") and contrasts it with both ermine and erminois. Related to ermine, but the derivation is unclear; the OED suggests "possibly [from] OF. herminès, pl. of herminet" (a supposed diminutive of hermine); modern French calls the fur contre-hermine. The Fifteenth Century Book of Arms (c. 1460) uses ermyne in a way that sometimes contrasts with ermyn (“ermine”) ("John Garther beryth of ix pecys ermyñ and ermyne"); The Ancestor says the image of that blazon "shows the furs as those usually called at this date erminees (or erminee) and ermine—erminees being ermine with the colour reversed […] ermine with the black field and white tails […] ", and the Middle English Dictionary defines that use of ermyne as "having the fur ermines, consisting of black with white spots (instead of black on white)", although they derive it from, and it appears to be, erminé ("ermined"), hence the Fifteenth Century Book also records a bend "sabyll ermyne" and a lion sable with "ermyne appon the sabyll".

Adjective

ermines (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry): In blazon, coloured with a heraldic fur of a black field with white spots; counter-ermine.
Alternative forms
  • ermins, ermynes (obsolete)
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Etymology 2

Noun

ermines

  1. plural of ermine

Verb

ermines

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ermine

Anagrams

  • Miesner, Misener, ReMines, Remines, emerins, enmires, remines

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