AGUISH is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. AGUISH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AGUISH?
| 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 AGUISH is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AGUISH
Front hooks — 1
vaguishBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How AGUISH scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in AGUISH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 153,299.
What does AGUISH mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaic
Feverish, shivering or chilly, as if suffering from malaria; also unhealthy because of damp marshy air.
The word is built on ague, the old name for a fever with fits of cold and shaking. Older travel writers called a district aguish when the low wet ground there was blamed for such illness. Today it survives mostly in historical writing and in rare figurative uses about a shaky, chilled feeling.
How AGUISH is used
Archaic; met in older texts about illness and marshland.
- The settlers avoided the aguish lowlands by the river.
- He woke with an aguish shiver and a burning head.
- The aguish fens were thought unfit for farming.
- A pale, aguish look came over the patient.
- The old diary called the whole coast aguish and sickly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AGUISH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AGUISH
1 longer words begin with AGUISH.
Shorter words from the letters in AGUISH
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Common questions about AGUISH
- Is AGUISH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AGUISH, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AGUISH worth?
- AGUISH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AGUISH mean?
- Feverish, shivering or chilly, as if suffering from malaria; also unhealthy because of damp marshy air.
- What letters can be added to AGUISH?
- AGUISH takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of AGUISH:
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