The word chinaman is a valid scrabble word, except in North America

3 short excerpts of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other Wiktionnaries.)

  • chinaman n. (Obsolete) A dealer in porcelain (china).
  • chinaman n. (Cricket, dated) A left-arm unorthodox bowling action (left-arm wrist-spin).
  • chinaman n. (Cricket) A spin bowler who uses such an action.

19 valid words from 3 definitions

ACTION AN ARM BOWLER BOWLING CHINA CRICKET DATED DEALER IN LEFT OBSOLETE PORCELAIN SPIN SUCH UNORTHODOX USES WHO WRIST

14 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word.)

AM AMA AN CH CHI CHIN CHINA HI HIN IN MA MAN NA NAM

9 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word.)

AM AMA AN ANI MA MAN MANI NA NAM

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

CHAINMAN

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

CHINAMEN

Scrabble scoring

  • 15 points.

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Categories without words

  • No lipograms (Word found when removing only one letter.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)
  • No suffixes (Word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)
  • Not found in the middle (Word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)
  • No prefixes (Word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)
  • No anagrams can be formed with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters of the word and an extra letter.)
  • No anagrams can be formed by removing a letter (New word formed with all the letters of the word minus a letter.)

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.

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