ARGOSY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. ARGOSY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARGOSY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARGOSY is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARGOSY
No single letter turns ARGOSY into another word.
How ARGOSY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ARGOSY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does ARGOSY mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A large merchant ship, or a rich fleet of such vessels, especially in poetry.
Argosy is a distorted form of Ragusa, the old name of Dubrovnik, whose big trading ships were famous in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Shakespeare used it for the heavily laden vessels of a wealthy merchant, and later poets turned it into a symbol of abundance and long voyages. Today it survives mainly in elevated prose and in the names of books and companies.
How ARGOSY is used
Literary; used for rich cargoes or grand sea journeys rather than ordinary ships.
- The argosy sailed into harbour low in the water with spice and silk.
- He compared the library to a great argosy of ideas.
- An argosy from Venice was expected before the autumn storms.
- The poet pictured each argosy as a floating treasure house.
- No argosy had ever carried so much gold across that sea.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARGOSY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ARGOSY
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Common questions about ARGOSY
- Is ARGOSY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARGOSY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARGOSY worth?
- ARGOSY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARGOSY mean?
- A large merchant ship, or a rich fleet of such vessels, especially in poetry.
- What letters can be added to ARGOSY?
- No single letter can be added to ARGOSY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ARGOSY:
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