AYGRE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. AYGRE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AYGRE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AYGRE is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AYGRE
No single letter turns AYGRE into another word.
How AYGRE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AYGRE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What stands out about AYGRE
- 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 AYGRE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicliterary
Eager or keen; an old spelling used by Shakespeare.
Aygre descends from the Old French aigre, meaning sharp or sour, and it reached the Elizabethan stage carrying a biting, sour-tempered edge rather than plain enthusiasm. Editors meet aygre mostly in early printed quartos, where later reprints quietly modernised the word away. Because no single modern term replaced it exactly, glossaries built from the plays still gloss aygre line by line rather than offering one tidy synonym.
How AYGRE is used
Archaic; found only in early modern texts and in word lists built from them, not in current writing.
- The old text gives aygre where a modern edition prints eager.
- A glossary of Shakespeare lists aygre among his sharper adjectives.
- Aygre carried a sourness that the modern word eager has lost.
- An editor footnotes aygre rather than modernising it outright.
- The line reads aygre desire in the original spelling.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AYGRE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AYGRE
The 5 tiles of AYGRE in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in AYGRE
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Common questions about AYGRE
- Is AYGRE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AYGRE is not in it.
- How many points is AYGRE worth?
- AYGRE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AYGRE mean?
- Eager or keen; an old spelling used by Shakespeare.
- What letters can be added to AYGRE?
- No single letter can be added to AYGRE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AYGRE:
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