AGONAL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. AGONAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AGONAL?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AGONAL is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AGONAL
No single letter turns AGONAL into another word.
How AGONAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in AGONAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What stands out about AGONAL
- The same 6 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 AGONAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Relating to, or occurring during, the final moments before death.
Medical staff use agonal to describe signs seen just before a person dies, most often agonal breathing, a slow, irregular gasping that can be mistaken for normal breath. Recognising an agonal rhythm on a heart monitor tells a clinician that the heart is about to stop entirely. Outside medicine the word is rarely used, since it names a very specific clinical moment.
How AGONAL is used
A clinical term, used almost exclusively in medical settings.
- The paramedics recognized the irregular, agonal breathing as a sign of the final stage.
- Doctors noted agonal gasps in the patient's last moments before the heart stopped.
- The chart recorded a brief agonal rhythm just before the monitor went flat.
- Textbooks describe agonal breathing as slow, laboured, and often mistaken for normal breathing.
- The report used the word agonal to describe the patient's final minutes.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AGONAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AGONAL
The 6 tiles of AGONAL in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in AGONAL
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Common questions about AGONAL
- Is AGONAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AGONAL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AGONAL worth?
- AGONAL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AGONAL mean?
- Relating to, or occurring during, the final moments before death.
- What letters can be added to AGONAL?
- No single letter can be added to AGONAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of AGONAL:
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