ALGOLAGNIAC is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. ALGOLAGNIAC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 21 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALGOLAGNIAC?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALGOLAGNIAC is to know. It scores 15 from 11 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALGOLAGNIAC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
algolagniacsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALGOLAGNIAC scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in ALGOLAGNIAC, 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 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ALGOLAGNIAC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ALGOLAGNIAC mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A person who takes pleasure, often sexual, in inflicting or enduring pain.
The term belongs to older psychological and clinical writing, where an algolagniac is someone showing algolagnia, a pairing of pain and gratification. It is a clinical word and rarely appears in everyday speech.
How ALGOLAGNIAC is used
Algolagniac is a rare clinical term, found mainly in specialist or historical texts on psychology.
- The textbook described the algolagniac as someone for whom pain brings gratification.
- Early psychologists wrote at length about the algolagniac.
- In the case study, the algolagniac sought out painful experiences.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALGOLAGNIAC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ALGOLAGNIAC
1 longer words begin with ALGOLAGNIAC.
Shorter words from the letters in ALGOLAGNIAC
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Common questions about ALGOLAGNIAC
- Is ALGOLAGNIAC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALGOLAGNIAC, where it scores 21 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALGOLAGNIAC worth?
- ALGOLAGNIAC is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALGOLAGNIAC mean?
- A person who takes pleasure, often sexual, in inflicting or enduring pain.
- What letters can be added to ALGOLAGNIAC?
- ALGOLAGNIAC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of ALGOLAGNIAC:
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