ALGID is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ALGID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALGID?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALGID is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALGID
No single letter turns ALGID into another word.
How ALGID scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ALGID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does ALGID mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicalrare
Cold or chilly, especially describing a stage of a fever or disease marked by cold, clammy skin.
Physicians once used algid to describe the cold, collapsed stage that can follow severe cases of malaria or cholera, when a patient's body temperature drops sharply along with blood pressure. Outside medicine the word simply means cold or chilly, though it survives mainly in older or specialized writing rather than everyday speech. A doctor describing the algid stage of an illness is warning that the patient's condition has become dangerous.
How ALGID is used
Rare outside medical writing, chiefly used to describe a cold, shock-like stage of certain fevers.
- The textbook described the algid stage of untreated cholera.
- His skin turned cold and clammy during the algid phase of the fever.
- Doctors once feared the algid collapse that followed severe malaria.
- The algid condition alarmed the nurses watching over him.
- Few modern readers recognize the word algid outside old medical texts.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALGID and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ALGID
4 longer words begin with ALGID.
Shorter words from the letters in ALGID
Common questions about ALGID
- Is ALGID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALGID, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALGID worth?
- ALGID is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALGID mean?
- Cold or chilly, especially describing a stage of a fever or disease marked by cold, clammy skin.
- What letters can be added to ALGID?
- No single letter can be added to ALGID to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ALGID:
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