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hireling

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Is hireling a Scrabble word?

Yes, hireling is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 12 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of hireling?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (usually derogatory) An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.Examples: "Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes alſo like the dayes of an hireling?"; "When my poor James was in the small-pox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?"derogatoryusually

2. (usually derogatory) Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.Examples: "[…]it may bee truely affirmed, that no kinde of men loue buſineſſe for it ſelfe, but thoſe that are learned; for other perſons loue it for profite; as an hireling that loues the worke for the wages;"; "These vain bickerings / Are spawn'd in courts by base intrigues and baser / Hirelings, who live by lies on good men's lives."derogatoryusually

3. (obsolete) A prostitute.obsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "hireling"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "hireling"?

Scrabble
12 points
H4
I1
R1
E1
L1
I1
N1
G2
Words With Friends
14 points
H3
I1
R1
E1
L2
I1
N2
G3

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