ANGARY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. ANGARY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANGARY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANGARY is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANGARY
No single letter turns ANGARY into another word.
How ANGARY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ANGARY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 153,299.
What does ANGARY mean in Scrabble?
noun
legal
The right of a country at war to take or destroy the property of a neutral state when military need requires it, on payment of compensation.
Under the old law of nations a warring state could seize a neutral ship or railway that was useful to the enemy, so long as the owner was paid afterward. The idea is rooted in an ancient practice of forced transport service, and the word came into English through French and Latin. Modern writers meet angary mostly in histories of the world wars and in textbooks on international law.
How ANGARY is used
Legal and historical; also written angaria.
- The navy claimed angary over the neutral freighters in the harbour.
- Lawyers argued that angary required full payment to the owners.
- The treaty discussed angary in the chapter on wartime property.
- Seizure by angary caused a diplomatic quarrel after the war began.
- Few students now study angary outside courses on the law of war.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANGARY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about ANGARY
- Is ANGARY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANGARY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANGARY worth?
- ANGARY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANGARY mean?
- The right of a country at war to take or destroy the property of a neutral state when military need requires it, on payment of compensation.
- What letters can be added to ANGARY?
- No single letter can be added to ANGARY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ANGARY:
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