GADARENE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. GADARENE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GADARENE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GADARENE is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GADARENE
No single letter turns GADARENE into another word.
How GADARENE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in GADARENE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so GADARENE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does GADARENE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Rushing headlong toward disaster, usually in a crowd.
Gadarene comes from the biblical story of the swine that ran down a cliff into the sea. It describes a stampede or panic in which people follow each other to ruin, as in a market crash.
How GADARENE is used
Used for reckless, mass rushes toward harm, often in finance or politics.
- The gadarene rush to sell shares caused the crash.
- Critics warned against a gadarene dash into war.
- Investors joined the gadarene stampede out of the market.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GADARENE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GADARENE
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Common questions about GADARENE
- Is GADARENE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GADARENE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GADARENE worth?
- GADARENE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GADARENE mean?
- Rushing headlong toward disaster, usually in a crowd.
- What letters can be added to GADARENE?
- No single letter can be added to GADARENE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of GADARENE:
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