AGLEY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. AGLEY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AGLEY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AGLEY is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AGLEY
No single letter turns AGLEY into another word.
How AGLEY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AGLEY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does AGLEY mean in Scrabble?
adverb
Scotsdialectliterary
Off the right or intended course; awry, askew or wrong, chiefly in Scots usage, most familiar from Robert Burns' line about plans going agley.
A carefully arranged plan that falls apart, or an arrow that misses its target, is said to go agley in Scots and northern English dialect, the word carrying a stronger folk flavour than its nearest standard equivalent, awry. Robert Burns made the word famous well beyond Scotland in his poem To a Mouse, where he writes that the best-laid schemes of mice and men often go agley, a line still widely quoted today. Because agley almost always follows a verb of motion or planning, such as go or gang, English speakers rarely use it as a simple descriptive adjective the way they might use crooked or wrong. Outside quotations of Burns and deliberate Scots dialect writing, agley remains largely unfamiliar to speakers of standard English.
How AGLEY is used
Scots and dialect, kept alive mainly through Burns' poetry and quotation of it; rarely used outside Scots writing or deliberate literary echoes of it.
- The wedding plans went completely agley after the storm.
- His best-laid schemes always seemed to go agley at the last minute.
- The arrow flew agley and struck the fence instead of the target.
- Everything about the expedition had gone agley by the third day.
- She quoted Burns' famous line about plans going agley.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AGLEY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in AGLEY
Common questions about AGLEY
- Is AGLEY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AGLEY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AGLEY worth?
- AGLEY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AGLEY mean?
- Off the right or intended course; awry, askew or wrong, chiefly in Scots usage, most familiar from Robert Burns' line about plans going agley.
- What letters can be added to AGLEY?
- No single letter can be added to AGLEY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AGLEY:
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