Is STRAINED a word?
STRAINED is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends, has 8 letters, and can be rearranged into 2 other words, plus 60 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, STRAINED is a valid word.
What does strained mean?
adjective: lacking natural ease.
“a labored style of debating”
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
STRAINED: word details
- Pronunciation: STRAYND (approx., 1 syllable)
- Length: 8 letters, a long word. It is one of 40,530 8-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 9 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 10 points on the tiles.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of strained
Shorter words inside strained
Words you can make from the letters of strained.
Solve a whole rack, not just STRAINED
STRAINED is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does STRAINED mean?
STRAINED is a adjective. It means: lacking natural ease.
Is STRAINED a valid word?
Yes, STRAINED is a valid word. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.