AUGURY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. AUGURY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AUGURY?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AUGURY is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AUGURY
No single letter turns AUGURY into another word.
How AUGURY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in AUGURY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 613,196.
What does AUGURY mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A sign or omen of what will happen, or the old practice of reading such signs.
Roman augurs studied the flight of birds and other natural events to decide whether the gods favoured a public act. From that custom the word came to mean any hint of the future, good or bad. Today it appears most often in phrases about a favourable or ominous augury for an election, a season or a business.
How AUGURY is used
Literary or journalistic; the plural is auguries.
- The early snow seemed a poor augury for the harvest.
- Priests in Rome took public decisions only after reading the augury.
- The strong first quarter was a good augury for the firm.
- She treated every black cat as an augury of bad luck.
- Few people now believe in augury of any kind.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AUGURY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in AUGURY
Common questions about AUGURY
- Is AUGURY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AUGURY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AUGURY worth?
- AUGURY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AUGURY mean?
- A sign or omen of what will happen, or the old practice of reading such signs.
- What letters can be added to AUGURY?
- No single letter can be added to AUGURY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of AUGURY:
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