BOURGEOIS is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BOURGEOIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOURGEOIS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOURGEOIS is to know. It scores 12 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOURGEOIS
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bourgeoiseChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How BOURGEOIS scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in BOURGEOIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BOURGEOIS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about BOURGEOIS
- BOURGEOIS runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BOURGEOIS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Belonging to the middle class, or marked by conventional, materialistic and respectable tastes.
Bourgeois is borrowed from French. It can be neutral, naming the middle class, but writers often use it as mild scorn for dull respectability. In Marxist thought, the bourgeois class owns capital and the means of production. As a noun, a bourgeois is a member of that class.
How BOURGEOIS is used
Used in social, political and cultural criticism.
- He mocked the bourgeois habits of his neighbours.
- The novel follows a bourgeois family in Paris.
- A bourgeois taste for comfort filled the house.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOURGEOIS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOURGEOIS
9 longer words begin with BOURGEOIS.
Shorter words from the letters in BOURGEOIS
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Common questions about BOURGEOIS
- Is BOURGEOIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOURGEOIS, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOURGEOIS worth?
- BOURGEOIS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOURGEOIS mean?
- Belonging to the middle class, or marked by conventional, materialistic and respectable tastes.
- What letters can be added to BOURGEOIS?
- BOURGEOIS takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of BOURGEOIS:
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