ARGIL is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ARGIL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARGIL?
| 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 ARGIL is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARGIL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
argilsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARGIL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ARGIL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,909.
What stands out about ARGIL
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ARGIL mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A pale, fine-grained clay, especially the kind used by potters, and an older chemical name for pure aluminous earth.
Argil comes from a Greek word for white clay, and older chemistry books used the term for what is now usually called alumina, the aluminum compound found in many natural clays. Potters have occasionally used argil for the fine, pale clay bodies prized for delicate ware, though clay and kaolin are now the far more common everyday words for the same material. Because argil sounds technical and slightly old-fashioned, it turns up mostly in historical writing about ceramics, geology, and early chemistry rather than in ordinary talk about pottery. A related but rarer adjective, argillaceous, describes rock or soil that consists largely of clay.
How ARGIL is used
A somewhat technical or old-fashioned word for clay, met chiefly in older chemistry, mineralogy, or specialist ceramics writing.
- The old chemistry text used argil where a modern book would simply say alumina.
- Potters once prized a fine white argil for the most delicate pieces.
- The mineralogist described the deposit as a bed of argil mixed with sand.
- Argil gives certain glazes their pale, almost translucent quality.
- The museum label explained that argil was the eighteenth-century name for this clay.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARGIL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ARGIL
The 5 tiles of ARGIL in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with ARGIL
6 longer words begin with ARGIL.
Words with ARGIL inside
6 words contain ARGIL in the middle. Words that start with ARGIL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ARGIL
Common questions about ARGIL
- Is ARGIL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARGIL, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARGIL worth?
- ARGIL is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARGIL mean?
- A pale, fine-grained clay, especially the kind used by potters, and an older chemical name for pure aluminous earth.
- What letters can be added to ARGIL?
- ARGIL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ARGIL:
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