EGRET is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. EGRET is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EGRET?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EGRET is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EGRET
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EGRET scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in EGRET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,562.
What does EGRET mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A slender wading bird of the heron family, typically with white plumage and long ornamental feathers that appear during the breeding season.
An egret wades slowly through shallow water, spearing fish, frogs, and insects with a quick thrust of its long, pointed bill. Several species share the name, including the great egret and the snowy egret, distinguished mainly by size and by small differences in bill and leg color. During the nineteenth century, hunters killed enormous numbers of egrets to supply their delicate breeding plumes, called aigrettes, to the fashion trade, a slaughter that helped spark the modern bird conservation movement. Today an egret standing motionless at the edge of a marsh is a common and welcome sight in wetlands across much of the world.
How EGRET is used
Used mainly in nature writing and birdwatching, almost always in reference to wading birds of the heron family.
- A white egret stood perfectly still at the edge of the marsh.
- The photographer waited an hour for the egret to catch a fish.
- Egrets nested together in a noisy colony near the riverbank.
- The guidebook helped visitors tell an egret from a similar heron.
- Plume hunters once nearly wiped out the egret in parts of Florida.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EGRET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of EGRET
The 5 tiles of EGRET in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with EGRET
1 longer words begin with EGRET.
Words ending in EGRET
1 words end in EGRET. Useful as a back hook: play EGRET onto a word already on the board.
Words with EGRET inside
14 words contain EGRET in the middle. Words that start with EGRET are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in EGRET
Common questions about EGRET
- Is EGRET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EGRET, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EGRET worth?
- EGRET is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EGRET mean?
- A slender wading bird of the heron family, typically with white plumage and long ornamental feathers that appear during the breeding season.
- What letters can be added to EGRET?
- EGRET takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of EGRET:
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