GAGE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. GAGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GAGE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GAGE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GAGE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GAGE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in GAGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 2 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,103.
What does GAGE mean in Scrabble?
noun
literaryarchaic
Something valuable, such as a glove, thrown down or handed over as a pledge or challenge to fight.
A knight who threw his gage before a rival was staking an object of worth on the outcome of the coming contest. By extension, gage came to mean any pledge deposited as security for a promise, a sense that survives now mainly in older fiction and formal writing.
How GAGE is used
Literary and archaic; usually met in historical fiction or in the set phrase throwing down the gage.
- The knight threw down his gage to challenge the stranger to combat.
- She offered her ring as a gage until the debt was paid.
- Taking up the gage meant accepting the fight.
- The merchant held the necklace as a gage against the loan.
- In the old tale, a glove serves as a gage of honor.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GAGE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GAGE
6 longer words begin with GAGE.
Words ending in GAGE
12 words end in GAGE. Useful as a back hook: play GAGE onto a word already on the board.
Words with GAGE inside
Showing 24 of 37 words that contain GAGE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with GAGE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GAGE
Common questions about GAGE
- Is GAGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GAGE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GAGE worth?
- GAGE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GAGE mean?
- Something valuable, such as a glove, thrown down or handed over as a pledge or challenge to fight.
- What letters can be added to GAGE?
- GAGE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of GAGE:
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