AGIST is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. AGIST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AGIST?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AGIST is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AGIST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
agistsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AGIST scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AGIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,909.
What stands out about AGIST
- The letters of AGIST run in alphabetical order from first to last.
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does AGIST mean in Scrabble?
verb
legal
To take in and feed other people's livestock on one's own land in exchange for payment.
Agist comes from Anglo-Norman legal French and first described feeding animals in a royal forest for a fee paid to the crown; the practice later moved into ordinary farming, where a landowner with spare pasture agrees to agist a neighbour's cattle or horses for a season. The related noun agistment names both the arrangement and the fee charged for it, and both words still turn up in property and agricultural law rather than in everyday speech. A farmer who agists animals is not buying or selling them, only renting out grazing land while someone else keeps ownership.
How AGIST is used
A specialised legal and agricultural term for boarding someone else's livestock on rented pasture, rarely met outside that context.
- The farmer agreed to agist forty sheep for the dry summer months.
- They paid a weekly fee to agist their horses on his land.
- The contract set out exactly how long he could agist the cattle there.
- Few smallholders today still agist livestock the way their grandparents did.
- A dispute over unpaid fees can arise whenever someone agists animals informally.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AGIST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AGIST
The 5 tiles of AGIST in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with AGIST
9 longer words begin with AGIST.
Words ending in AGIST
16 words end in AGIST. Useful as a back hook: play AGIST onto a word already on the board.
Words with AGIST inside
Showing 24 of 51 words that contain AGIST somewhere in the middle. Words that start with AGIST are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AGIST
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Common questions about AGIST
- Is AGIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AGIST, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AGIST worth?
- AGIST is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AGIST mean?
- To take in and feed other people's livestock on one's own land in exchange for payment.
- What letters can be added to AGIST?
- AGIST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AGIST:
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