ARGLE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ARGLE 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 ARGLE?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARGLE is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARGLE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARGLE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ARGLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What stands out about ARGLE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 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 ARGLE mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialect
To argue or wrangle, especially over small or trivial points.
Argle is a dialectal reshaping of argue, familiar today chiefly from the compound argle-bargle, a term for noisy back-and-forth bickering that produces more heat than result. On its own the verb is now rare outside dialect dictionaries and older regional writing, where two neighbours might argle for an hour about a matter neither cared much about a day later. Because argle-bargle survives far more often than the plain verb, many readers meet argle only inside that fixed pair rather than as a separate word. The doubled form follows a pattern common in English, where a word is repeated with a changed vowel purely for rhythm, as in flip-flop or ping-pong.
How ARGLE is used
Chiefly dialectal; met today mainly inside the compound argle-bargle rather than used alone.
- The neighbours would argle over the fence line every spring.
- Two old men sat on the porch and argled about nothing in particular.
- Rather than argle further, she simply left the room.
- The old diary shows the two families argle about the same boundary every year.
- He argled with the clerk for a full ten minutes over a small fee.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARGLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ARGLE
The 5 tiles of ARGLE in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with ARGLE
2 longer words begin with ARGLE.
Words ending in ARGLE
2 words end in ARGLE. Useful as a back hook: play ARGLE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ARGLE inside
5 words contain ARGLE in the middle. Words that start with ARGLE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ARGLE
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Common questions about ARGLE
- Is ARGLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARGLE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARGLE worth?
- ARGLE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARGLE mean?
- To argue or wrangle, especially over small or trivial points.
- What letters can be added to ARGLE?
- ARGLE takes 4 hooks: 2 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ARGLE:
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