AGUE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. AGUE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AGUE?
| 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 AGUE is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AGUE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AGUE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in AGUE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,026.
What does AGUE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaichistoricalmedical
An old term for a malarial fever marked by alternating chills and burning heat.
Ague was the old name for a fever, usually malarial, that came in violent bouts of shivering cold followed by burning heat. Doctors before modern medicine spoke of a patient shaking with ague rather than naming a specific disease.
How AGUE is used
Archaic; found in older medical writing, historical novels and phrases like fever and ague.
- He shivered uncontrollably, gripped by a sudden fit of ague.
- Marsh villages once suffered frequent outbreaks of ague each summer.
- The old diary describes weeks of fever and ague along the river.
- Settlers blamed the swampy ground for the recurring ague among the colonists.
- Quinine became the standard remedy prescribed for ague.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AGUE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AGUE
5 longer words begin with AGUE.
Words ending in AGUE
16 words end in AGUE. Useful as a back hook: play AGUE onto a word already on the board.
Words with AGUE inside
Showing 24 of 69 words that contain AGUE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with AGUE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AGUE
Common questions about AGUE
- Is AGUE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AGUE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AGUE worth?
- AGUE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AGUE mean?
- An old term for a malarial fever marked by alternating chills and burning heat.
- What letters can be added to AGUE?
- AGUE takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of AGUE:
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