AUGER is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. AUGER 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 AUGER?
| 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 AUGER 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 AUGER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AUGER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AUGER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What stands out about AUGER
- 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 AUGER mean in Scrabble?
noun
A tool with a helical blade or bit, turned by hand or by a motor, used to bore holes in wood, ice, soil, or similar material.
An auger used in carpentry looks a little like an oversized corkscrew, and turning its spiral blade both cuts into the wood and lifts the loosened material up and out of the hole as the tool advances. Larger versions of the same basic design are built for boring into earth, useful for setting fence posts or foundation piers, and ice fishers use a hand or powered auger to cut a round hole through a frozen lake. Grain augers work on the same spiral principle in reverse, moving loose material such as wheat or corn along a tube rather than cutting through anything solid. Auger is sometimes confused with augur, the unrelated word meaning to predict, even though the two words sound identical and share no history at all.
How AUGER is used
A tool name from carpentry, construction, ice fishing, and agriculture; not to be confused with the identically sounding augur, meaning to predict.
- He used a hand auger to bore holes for the fence posts.
- The ice fisherman drilled through the lake with a power auger.
- A grain auger moved the harvest from the truck into the silo.
- The old auger had a wooden handle worn smooth by years of use.
- She bought a longer auger bit to reach through the thick beam.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AUGER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AUGER
The 5 tiles of AUGER in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with AUGER
1 longer words begin with AUGER.
Words ending in AUGER
3 words end in AUGER. Useful as a back hook: play AUGER onto a word already on the board.
Words with AUGER inside
2 words contain AUGER in the middle. Words that start with AUGER are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AUGER
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Common questions about AUGER
- Is AUGER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AUGER, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AUGER worth?
- AUGER is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AUGER mean?
- A tool with a helical blade or bit, turned by hand or by a motor, used to bore holes in wood, ice, soil, or similar material.
- What letters can be added to AUGER?
- AUGER takes 4 hooks: 3 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AUGER:
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