HUG is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. HUG is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HUG?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HUG is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 3.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HUG
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HUG scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HUG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,738.
What does HUG mean in Scrabble?
verb
To hold somebody closely in the arms.
Hug is probably Norse and it arrived late: there is no record of it before the sixteenth century, which is odd for something so ordinary. The sense of keeping close to a thing — a road that hugs the coast — is younger still and now the commoner one in writing.
How HUG is used
Transitive. Also a noun — a hug, two hugs.
- She hugged him and he stood there like a post.
- The road hugs the coast for eleven miles.
- A hug at that age is a whole conversation.
- They hug on arrival and shake hands on leaving.
- The word hug is not recorded before the 1500s.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HUG and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HUG
The 3 tiles of HUG in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HUG
20 longer words begin with HUG.
Words ending in HUG
3 words end in HUG. Useful as a back hook: play HUG onto a word already on the board.
Words with HUG inside
Showing 24 of 44 words that contain HUG somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HUG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HUG
Common questions about HUG
- Is HUG valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HUG, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HUG worth?
- HUG is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HUG mean?
- To hold somebody closely in the arms.
- What letters can be added to HUG?
- HUG takes 5 hooks: 2 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HUG:
Open HUG in the Word Finder