EXOGAMY is a valid Scrabble word — 20 points
Yes. EXOGAMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 20 points in Scrabble and 21 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EXOGAMY?
| 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: 58 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EXOGAMY is to know. It scores 20 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EXOGAMY
No single letter turns EXOGAMY into another word.
How EXOGAMY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in EXOGAMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,544 thousand.
What does EXOGAMY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The custom of marrying only someone from outside your own clan, tribe or social group.
Anthropologists contrast exogamy with endogamy, where partners are chosen from within the group. The word is also used in biology for the joining of cells from unrelated individuals, which shows the same idea of mixing across boundaries.
How EXOGAMY is used
Exogamy is mostly used in anthropology and sociology when discussing marriage rules.
- Clan exogamy meant that cousins on the father side could not wed.
- The village practised strict exogamy for generations.
- Exogamy spread family ties across many communities.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EXOGAMY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in EXOGAMY
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Common questions about EXOGAMY
- Is EXOGAMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EXOGAMY, where it scores 21 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EXOGAMY worth?
- EXOGAMY is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EXOGAMY mean?
- The custom of marrying only someone from outside your own clan, tribe or social group.
- What letters can be added to EXOGAMY?
- No single letter can be added to EXOGAMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of EXOGAMY:
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