AGLET is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. AGLET is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AGLET?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AGLET is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AGLET
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AGLET scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AGLET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What does AGLET mean in Scrabble?
noun
The small plastic or metal sheath fitted over the end of a shoelace or cord to stop it from fraying.
Aglet comes from French aiguillette, a little needle, describing how the hardened tip lets a lace be threaded through an eyelet the way a needle passes through cloth. Before shoelaces were common, similar decorative aglets finished the cords used to fasten Tudor and Elizabethan clothing, and some were made of gold or silver as ornaments rather than fasteners. An older spelling, aiglet, still turns up in books about historical costume alongside the modern shoelace sense. Despite being on almost every pair of shoes, most people never learn the word aglet until it comes up in a trivia question.
How AGLET is used
Everyday object with a specialised name; countable, an aglet, several aglets, and also used in older costume history as aiglet.
- The plastic aglet had worn away, so the lace kept fraying.
- She replaced both broken aglets with new metal ones.
- A Tudor doublet was often fastened with ornamental aglets of silver.
- Without an aglet, threading the lace through the eyelet is much harder.
- He collected antique clothing pins and a few surviving aglets from the period.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AGLET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AGLET
1 longer words begin with AGLET.
Words ending in AGLET
2 words end in AGLET. Useful as a back hook: play AGLET onto a word already on the board.
Words with AGLET inside
2 words contain AGLET in the middle. Words that start with AGLET are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AGLET
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Common questions about AGLET
- Is AGLET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AGLET, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AGLET worth?
- AGLET is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AGLET mean?
- The small plastic or metal sheath fitted over the end of a shoelace or cord to stop it from fraying.
- What letters can be added to AGLET?
- AGLET takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AGLET:
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