ENCAGE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. ENCAGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ENCAGE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENCAGE is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENCAGE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENCAGE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ENCAGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 55,745.
What stands out about ENCAGE
- ENCAGE begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ENCAGE mean in Scrabble?
verb
literary
To shut a person or animal inside a cage.
Writers often use encage in a figurative way, for a mind, a feeling or a bird of the imagination held in a narrow space. The prefix en- means to put into, so the verb says the same as to put in a cage but sounds more formal. A variant spelling, incage, exists but is far rarer.
How ENCAGE is used
Literary; more common in poetry and elevated prose than in speech.
- They chose to encage the parrot for the night.
- No law should encage a free thinker.
- The poem tells how winter can encage the heart.
- Keepers had to encage the lion before the repairs began.
- She would never encage a wild bird for pleasure.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENCAGE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ENCAGE
2 longer words begin with ENCAGE.
Shorter words from the letters in ENCAGE
Common questions about ENCAGE
- Is ENCAGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENCAGE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENCAGE worth?
- ENCAGE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENCAGE mean?
- To shut a person or animal inside a cage.
- What letters can be added to ENCAGE?
- ENCAGE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ENCAGE:
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