AIGA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. AIGA is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 5 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AIGA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AIGA is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AIGA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AIGA scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in AIGA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,034.
What does AIGA mean in Scrabble?
noun
A Samoan word for an extended family group, spanning several generations, that forms the basic unit of Samoan society.
In Samoan custom the aiga is far wider than a household. It covers grandparents, cousins and in-laws, is often headed by a matai, or chief, and controls shared land and family decisions, so the aiga rather than one person is treated as responsible for its members.
How AIGA is used
A loanword used mainly in writing about Samoan and wider Polynesian family structure.
- Every decision about the land passed through the aiga, not through one person alone.
- She grew up surrounded by the wide web of her aiga, cousins and elders included.
- The matai spoke for the whole aiga at the village meeting.
- Members of the aiga gathered from three islands for the funeral.
- His loyalty to the aiga came before any personal ambition.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AIGA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AIGA
1 longer words begin with AIGA.
Words ending in AIGA
2 words end in AIGA. Useful as a back hook: play AIGA onto a word already on the board.
Words with AIGA inside
2 words contain AIGA in the middle. Words that start with AIGA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AIGA
Common questions about AIGA
- Is AIGA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AIGA is not in it.
- How many points is AIGA worth?
- AIGA is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AIGA mean?
- A Samoan word for an extended family group, spanning several generations, that forms the basic unit of Samoan society.
- What letters can be added to AIGA?
- AIGA takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of AIGA:
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