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Is pin a Scrabble word?

Yes, pin is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 5 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of pin?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.

2. (informal, in the plural) A leg.Examples: "I'm not so good on my pins these days."in-pluralinformal

3. (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.Examples: "The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins."

4. (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.Synonyms: lapel pin, badgeUS

5. (chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.

6. (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole

verb (English)

1. (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.often

2. (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.

3. (wrestling) To pin down (someone).Examples: "He pinned his opponent on the mat."

4. (graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.Examples: "to pin a folder to the taskbar"Antonyms: unpintransitive

5. (programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.Examples: "When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled."; "[…] you can use the GCHandle class mentioned earlier to pin a heap block until you explicitly unpin it."Antonyms: unpintransitive

6. (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.Examples: "Now I need to pin those needles."Synonyms: pegtransitive

noun (English)

1. (organic chemistry) Initialism of preferred IUPAC name.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "pin"?

Scrabble
5 points
P3
I1
N1
Words With Friends
7 points
P4
I1
N2

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