ALGOLAGNIA is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. ALGOLAGNIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALGOLAGNIA?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALGOLAGNIA is to know. It scores 12 from 10 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALGOLAGNIA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALGOLAGNIA scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in ALGOLAGNIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 3 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ALGOLAGNIA has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about ALGOLAGNIA
- ALGOLAGNIA begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ALGOLAGNIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicaltechnical
Sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain.
Algolagnia is a clinical term from older psychology that covers both the active form, sadism, and the passive form, masochism. Modern writers seldom use it, preferring those two terms or a general phrase.
How ALGOLAGNIA is used
Appears mainly in historical or clinical texts on psychology.
- The textbook defined algolagnia and its two forms.
- Early psychiatrists wrote about algolagnia in case studies.
- The term algolagnia is now largely out of fashion.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALGOLAGNIA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ALGOLAGNIA
3 longer words begin with ALGOLAGNIA.
Shorter words from the letters in ALGOLAGNIA
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Common questions about ALGOLAGNIA
- Is ALGOLAGNIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALGOLAGNIA, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALGOLAGNIA worth?
- ALGOLAGNIA is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALGOLAGNIA mean?
- Sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain.
- What letters can be added to ALGOLAGNIA?
- ALGOLAGNIA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of ALGOLAGNIA:
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