ANAGOGICAL is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. ANAGOGICAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANAGOGICAL?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANAGOGICAL is to know. It scores 14 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANAGOGICAL
No single letter turns ANAGOGICAL into another word.
How ANAGOGICAL scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in ANAGOGICAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 3 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ANAGOGICAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ANAGOGICAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Concerned with a hidden spiritual meaning that lies beneath the plain surface of a text.
Medieval scholars sorted scripture into literal, moral and anagogical readings, the last being the one that points toward heaven and final things. The word anagogical therefore belongs to biblical and literary interpretation rather than to everyday speech.
How ANAGOGICAL is used
Used in theology and literary criticism for a reading that looks past the literal story to a higher, mystical sense.
- The monk gave an anagogical reading of the temple, treating its walls as a picture of the heavenly city.
- Her essay contrasts the literal and the anagogical senses of the old poem.
- An anagogical interpretation of the journey sees it as the soul rising toward God.
- Few modern readers look for anagogical meanings in a simple fable.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANAGOGICAL and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ANAGOGICAL
1 longer words begin with ANAGOGICAL.
Shorter words from the letters in ANAGOGICAL
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Common questions about ANAGOGICAL
- Is ANAGOGICAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANAGOGICAL, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANAGOGICAL worth?
- ANAGOGICAL is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANAGOGICAL mean?
- Concerned with a hidden spiritual meaning that lies beneath the plain surface of a text.
- What letters can be added to ANAGOGICAL?
- No single letter can be added to ANAGOGICAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of ANAGOGICAL:
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