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STINT

5 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What STINT Means

  1. noun: an unbroken period of time during which you do something“there were stretches of boredom”
  2. noun: smallest American sandpiper
  3. verb: subsist on a meager allowance“scratch and scrimp”
  4. verb: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities“stint with the allowance”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

STINT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 I1 N1 T1.

Anagrams of STINT (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In STINT

18 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.

4 letter words (4)

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing STINT

STINT appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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