FIG is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. FIG 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 FIG?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FIG is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FIG
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FIG scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in FIG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,994.
What does FIG mean in Scrabble?
noun
A soft sweet fruit full of small seeds.
What gets eaten is not really a fruit but the inside of a flower turned outward, which is why a fig has no blossom anybody ever sees. Each kind depends on one species of wasp to pollinate it, and that arrangement is around eighty million years old.
How FIG is used
Countable: a fig, two figs.
- The fig ripens on the tree and not afterwards.
- A fig has its flowers on the inside.
- Two figs and a piece of cheese is a whole lunch.
- A fig tree fruits twice and the first crop is better.
- A fig depends on one wasp and nothing else.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FIG and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FIG
The 3 tiles of FIG in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with FIG
Showing 24 of 65 words that begin with FIG.
Words ending in FIG
1 words end in FIG. Useful as a back hook: play FIG onto a word already on the board.
Words with FIG inside
Showing 24 of 132 words that contain FIG somewhere in the middle. Words that start with FIG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FIG
Common questions about FIG
- Is FIG valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FIG, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FIG worth?
- FIG is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FIG mean?
- A soft sweet fruit full of small seeds.
- What letters can be added to FIG?
- FIG takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of FIG:
Open FIG in the Word Finder