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Is whin a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word whin is a Scrabble US word. The word whin is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

W4H4I1N1

Is whin a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word whin is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

W4H4I1N1

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Yes. The word whin is a Words With Friends word. The word whin is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

WHIN,

3-letter words (2 found)

HIN,WIN,

2-letter words (2 found)

HI,IN,

You can make 5 words from whin according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of whin

whin hwin wihn iwhn hiwn ihwn whni hwni wnhi nwhi hnwi nhwi winh iwnh wnih nwih inwh niwh hinw ihnw hniw nhiw inhw nihw

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word whin. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in whin.

Definitions and meaning of whin

whin

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wīn, IPA(key): /wɪn/
  • (without the wine–whine merger) enPR: hwīn, IPA(key): /ʍɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • Homophone: win (accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English whynne, from Old Norse hvein (“gorse, furze”) (compare Norwegian kvein (“bent grass”), Swedish ven (“bent grass”), dialectal hven (“swamp”)), apparently from hvein (“swampy land”), from Proto-Germanic *hwainō, *hwin- (“swamp; moor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷeyn- (“to soil; mud; filth”). Compare Latin caenum (“filth”), Latin inquīnō (“to sully; soil”).

Noun

whin (countable and uncountable, plural whins)

  1. Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
    • 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter, 1828, Thomas Park (editor), Works of the British Poets, Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65,
      By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins, and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.
  2. The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).
Derived terms

Further reading

  • Ulex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

whin

  1. Whinstone.

References

  • “whin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • HNWI

Middle English

Verb

whin

  1. (Northern) Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)

Source: wiktionary.org