FreeScrabbleDictionary

gainsboro

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9

Definition of gainsboro

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)A neutral light grey colour.
    “By using light gray or Gainsboro we are using Edward Tufte's principle of "minimum effective difference" to put in ancillary information.”
    “When the temperature reached to^([sic]) about 40 °C, the color of characters began to change, and it changed completely from black to gainsboro when the temperature rose to about 50 °C. As the[…]film cooled down to the room temperature, the color returned to black.”
See all 2 definitions

noun

  1. (uncountable)A neutral light grey colour.
    “By using light gray or Gainsboro we are using Edward Tufte's principle of "minimum effective difference" to put in ancillary information.”
    “When the temperature reached to^([sic]) about 40 °C, the color of characters began to change, and it changed completely from black to gainsboro when the temperature rose to about 50 °C. As the[…]film cooled down to the room temperature, the color returned to black.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of a neutral light grey colour.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

A color named "gainsboro" was added to the X11 color chart by Paul Raveling in 1989. Raveling explained that he introduced a number of "light and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples", of which gainsboro appears to be one.

Anagrams of gainsboro

3 plays · some not in Scrabble

Best play bigaroons 12 points

Words you can make from gainsboro

200+ playable · top: BIGAROONS (12 pts)

Best play bigaroons 12 points

8-letter words

3 words

7-letter words

14 words

6-letter words

48 words

5-letter words

81 words

4-letter words

53 words

Find your best play with gainsboro

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes gainsboro, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.

Find more plays Browse word lists