What GAIN Means
- verb: obtain“derive pleasure from one's garden”
- verb: win something through one's efforts“I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese”
- noun: a quantity that is added“there was an addition to property taxes this year”
- noun: the advantageous quality of being beneficial
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
GAIN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 A1 I1 N1.
Anagrams of GAIN (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In GAIN
12 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (6)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing GAIN
GAIN appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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