EGO is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. EGO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EGO?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EGO is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EGO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EGO scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in EGO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 561.
What stands out about EGO
- The same 3 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 EGO mean in Scrabble?
noun
A person's sense of their own importance.
Ego is Latin for I, and the psychological sense came out of translating Freud, whose German word was simply the ordinary pronoun. The everyday meaning about vanity grew from that translation and would have puzzled him considerably.
How EGO is used
Countable and uncountable.
- His ego survived the review and nothing else did.
- The word ego is Latin for I.
- An ego that size needs its own chair.
- Freud wrote the ordinary German pronoun where English says ego.
- Two egos on one committee and no decisions.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EGO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of EGO
The 3 tiles of EGO in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with EGO
Showing 24 of 46 words that begin with EGO.
Words ending in EGO
13 words end in EGO. Useful as a back hook: play EGO onto a word already on the board.
Words with EGO inside
Showing 24 of 244 words that contain EGO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with EGO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in EGO
Common questions about EGO
- Is EGO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EGO, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EGO worth?
- EGO is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EGO mean?
- A person's sense of their own importance.
- What letters can be added to EGO?
- EGO takes 6 hooks: 5 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of EGO:
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