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WHINS

5 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What WHINS Means

WHINS is a form of WHIN, which means:

  1. noun: very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
  2. noun: small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WHINS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 H4 I1 N1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In WHINS

21 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 (8)

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing WHINS

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

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