GANGUE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. GANGUE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GANGUE?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GANGUE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GANGUE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ganguesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GANGUE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in GANGUE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 2 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 153,299.
What does GANGUE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The commercially worthless rock and mineral material that surrounds valuable ore in a deposit.
When miners dig up ore, they rarely find pure metal on its own; instead the valuable mineral is mixed in with gangue, the rock that has to be separated out and discarded before the useful material can be processed. Geologists and mining engineers use gangue to describe this waste material specifically, distinguishing it from ore, which is the part actually worth extracting. Common gangue minerals include quartz and calcite, which often surround deposits of metal ores such as lead, copper and silver. The proportion of gangue to ore in a deposit is one of the things that determines whether a mine is worth operating at all.
How GANGUE is used
A technical term from geology and mining, rarely used outside those fields.
- Workers crushed the rock to separate the gangue from the silver ore.
- Quartz was the most common gangue mineral found at the site.
- The mine became unprofitable once the gangue outweighed the ore by too much.
- Engineers studied the gangue to plan how best to process the deposit.
- A thick layer of gangue surrounded the vein of copper ore.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GANGUE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GANGUE
1 longer words begin with GANGUE.
Shorter words from the letters in GANGUE
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Common questions about GANGUE
- Is GANGUE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GANGUE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GANGUE worth?
- GANGUE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GANGUE mean?
- The commercially worthless rock and mineral material that surrounds valuable ore in a deposit.
- What letters can be added to GANGUE?
- GANGUE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of GANGUE:
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