GIST is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. GIST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GIST?
| 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 GIST is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GIST
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GIST scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in GIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,051.
What stands out about GIST
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does GIST mean in Scrabble?
noun
The main point or essential meaning of something said or written.
Gist came out of English law, where it named the point on which an action rested — the gist of the action — and the general sense grew from that narrow one. It is nearly always used with the: you get the gist, you give somebody the gist, and the word resists the plural.
How GIST is used
Almost always with the definite article and of — the gist of the argument. Rarely pluralised.
- Give me the gist and skip the meeting notes.
- She got the gist of it from the first paragraph.
- The gist of his argument was that nothing had changed.
- He missed the words and caught the gist.
- A summary that loses the gist is worse than no summary.
- The gist survived the translation; the tone did not.
- They agreed on the gist and argued about everything else.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GIST and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GIST
The 4 tiles of GIST in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with GIST
1 longer words begin with GIST.
Words ending in GIST
Showing 24 of 353 words that end in GIST. Useful as a back hook: play GIST onto a word already on the board.
Words with GIST inside
Showing 24 of 465 words that contain GIST somewhere in the middle. Words that start with GIST are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GIST
Common questions about GIST
- Is GIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GIST, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GIST worth?
- GIST is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GIST mean?
- The main point or essential meaning of something said or written.
- What letters can be added to GIST?
- GIST takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of GIST:
Open GIST in the Word Finder