GIGUE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. GIGUE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GIGUE?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GIGUE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GIGUE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
giguesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GIGUE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GIGUE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 2 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does GIGUE mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
A lively dance in triple time, or a piece of instrumental music written in the rhythm of that dance, most familiar today as the closing movement of a Baroque suite.
A gigue keeps the same quick, skipping rhythm that English calls a jig, and Baroque composers such as Bach and Handel often placed one at the end of a keyboard or orchestral suite to close it energetically. The dance itself came from the British Isles before French and German musicians adopted and refined its patterns for concert use. Because the gigue survives mainly in written scores rather than as a living folk dance, most people today meet the word in a music history class rather than on a dance floor.
How GIGUE is used
Chiefly a music-history term, used when discussing Baroque suites and their closing movements.
- The harpsichordist ended the suite with a brisk gigue.
- Bach wrote a gigue as the final movement of several of his partitas.
- The dancers in the film performed a gigue to lively fiddle music.
- A gigue usually runs faster than the sarabande that precedes it.
- Music students learn to recognise a gigue by its skipping compound rhythm.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GIGUE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GIGUE
1 longer words begin with GIGUE.
Shorter words from the letters in GIGUE
Common questions about GIGUE
- Is GIGUE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GIGUE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GIGUE worth?
- GIGUE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GIGUE mean?
- A lively dance in triple time, or a piece of instrumental music written in the rhythm of that dance, most familiar today as the closing movement of a Baroque suite.
- What letters can be added to GIGUE?
- GIGUE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GIGUE:
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