GASBAG is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. GASBAG is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GASBAG?
| 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 GASBAG is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GASBAG
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
gasbagsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GASBAG scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in GASBAG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 2 | 3 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,380 thousand.
What stands out about GASBAG
- GASBAG begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does GASBAG mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A person who talks at length about nothing of any importance.
The insult pictures someone as a bag filled with hot air that keeps swelling without ever saying anything useful. Speakers who ramble through meetings or boast without end are the usual targets. In a more literal and technical sense, a gasbag is also the bag that holds the lifting gas in a balloon or airship.
How GASBAG is used
Informal and teasing or scornful; the literal balloon sense belongs to technical writing about airships.
- The committee chairman was a gasbag who could not finish a sentence.
- Nobody sat next to the gasbag at the wedding dinner.
- The airship carried its hydrogen in a huge gasbag above the cabin.
- He called the radio host an old gasbag.
- A tear in the gasbag left the balloon drifting slowly to the ground.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GASBAG and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GASBAG
3 longer words begin with GASBAG.
Shorter words from the letters in GASBAG
Common questions about GASBAG
- Is GASBAG valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GASBAG, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GASBAG worth?
- GASBAG is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GASBAG mean?
- A person who talks at length about nothing of any importance.
- What letters can be added to GASBAG?
- GASBAG takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of GASBAG:
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