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MEAN
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
M
3
E
1
A
1
N
1
Σ
6
Definitions
Verb
- have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"
- destine or designate for a certain purpose; "These flowers were meant for you"
- intend to refer to; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"
- denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"
- mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"
- have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"
- have a specified degree of importance; "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything"
Adjective
- of no value or worth; "I was caught in the bastardly traffic"
- (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip"
- characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
- marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"
- excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"
Noun
- an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word MEAN
Yes, MEAN is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 6 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
MEAN is a 4-letter word. It contains 2 vowels and 2 consonants.