BEGGARLINESS is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. BEGGARLINESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 21 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BEGGARLINESS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BEGGARLINESS is to know. It scores 16 from 12 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BEGGARLINESS
No single letter turns BEGGARLINESS into another word.
How BEGGARLINESS scores
Face value of the 12 tiles in BEGGARLINESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BEGGARLINESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does BEGGARLINESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
The condition of being poor, mean and wretched, in the manner of a beggar.
Beggarliness is a rare, old-fashioned abstract noun that reaches for squalor and stinginess at once. Writers use beggarliness to criticise a shabby or miserly offering as much as real poverty.
How BEGGARLINESS is used
Beggarliness appears in literary or historical prose and is seldom heard in conversation.
- The beggarliness of the lodging shocked even seasoned travellers.
- He was ashamed of the beggarliness of the gift he had brought.
- Dickens dwells on the beggarliness of the workhouse meals.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BEGGARLINESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BEGGARLINESS
1 longer words begin with BEGGARLINESS.
Shorter words from the letters in BEGGARLINESS
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Common questions about BEGGARLINESS
- Is BEGGARLINESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BEGGARLINESS, where it scores 21 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BEGGARLINESS worth?
- BEGGARLINESS is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BEGGARLINESS mean?
- The condition of being poor, mean and wretched, in the manner of a beggar.
- What letters can be added to BEGGARLINESS?
- No single letter can be added to BEGGARLINESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 12 letters of BEGGARLINESS:
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