Chine

/tʃaɪn/

Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Scrabble:10 ptsWWF:11 pts5 letters

Definition of Chine

noun

The top of a ridge.
The spine of an animal.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.

verb

To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

Anagrams of Chine

Exact Anagrams

1 word using all 5 letters:

Words You Can Make

12 words can be made from the letters in "chine":

5-LETTER WORDS

4-LETTER WORDS

chin cine inch nice

3-LETTER WORDS

chi hen hic hie hin ice ich

+1 Letter Anagrams

Words formed by adding one letter to "chine" and rearranging:

+dchined inched niched

+renrich incher richen

+schines inches niches

Related Word Patterns

CH...Words starting with "ch"...NEWords ending with "ne"All 5-letter words Unscramble "chine"

Rhyming Words

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