ERGATE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ERGATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ERGATE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ERGATE is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ERGATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ergatesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ERGATE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ERGATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,582.
What stands out about ERGATE
- ERGATE begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ERGATE mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologytechnical
A worker ant, an undeveloped female that carries out the labour of the colony rather than reproducing.
An ergate lacks the wings and fully developed reproductive organs of a queen, and instead spends its life foraging, building the nest, and caring for larvae. Entomologists use the term to distinguish workers precisely from other ant castes, such as winged reproductive females or soldiers with enlarged heads. Most of the ants visible in an average colony at any moment are ergates going about the colony's daily work.
How ERGATE is used
A technical entomological term, used to name the worker caste precisely rather than in everyday speech about ants.
- Thousands of ergates carried leaf fragments back to the underground nest.
- The biologist explained how an ergate differs from a winged queen.
- Only ergates, never the queen, left the nest to search for food.
- The lab studied how an ergate's brain changes as it ages.
- A single ergate can carry many times its own body weight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ERGATE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ERGATE
1 longer words begin with ERGATE.
Shorter words from the letters in ERGATE
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Common questions about ERGATE
- Is ERGATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ERGATE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ERGATE worth?
- ERGATE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ERGATE mean?
- A worker ant, an undeveloped female that carries out the labour of the colony rather than reproducing.
- What letters can be added to ERGATE?
- ERGATE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ERGATE:
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