GERT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. GERT is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 5 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept GERT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GERT is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GERT
No single letter turns GERT into another word.
How GERT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in GERT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,026.
What does GERT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialectBritish
Great or very large.
Gert is west-country English, Bristol above all, and it works as an intensifier rather than a measurement: in a gert big house the second word carries the size and gert carries the feeling about it. It is written down mainly to show where a speaker comes from, and it rarely survives a copy-editor outside dialogue.
How GERT is used
Placed before the noun or before another adjective — a gert big dog. Chiefly south-western England.
- There was a gert queue outside the chip shop.
- He came back with a gert big fish and no explanation.
- That is a gert lump of a thing to carry.
- A gert crowd turned out for the parade.
- One gert in a line of dialogue places the speaker exactly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GERT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GERT
1 longer words begin with GERT.
Words with GERT inside
2 words contain GERT in the middle. Words that start with GERT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GERT
Common questions about GERT
- Is GERT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GERT is not in it.
- How many points is GERT worth?
- GERT is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GERT mean?
- Great or very large.
- What letters can be added to GERT?
- No single letter can be added to GERT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of GERT:
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