JUGAL is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. JUGAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JUGAL?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JUGAL is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JUGAL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
jugalsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JUGAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JUGAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does JUGAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalzoology
Relating to, or situated in the region of, the cheek or cheekbone.
The word jugal comes from Latin jugum, meaning yoke, and it is used mainly by anatomists and zoologists describing the bones and tissue around the cheek. In reptiles, birds and many fossil animals, the jugal bone forms part of the arch below the eye socket, while in mammals the same region is usually called the zygomatic arch. Because jugal is a specialist term, most people meet it only in textbooks of comparative anatomy or paleontology rather than in everyday speech.
How JUGAL is used
Technical; used in anatomy and zoology rather than in ordinary conversation.
- The paleontologist pointed to the jugal bone beneath the dinosaur eye socket.
- A jugal arch supports the side of the skull in many reptiles.
- The textbook labeled the jugal region just below the eye.
- Birds retain a jugal bone that mammals have fused into other structures.
- The fossil was missing its jugal, making the skull harder to reconstruct.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JUGAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JUGAL
1 longer words begin with JUGAL.
Words ending in JUGAL
2 words end in JUGAL. Useful as a back hook: play JUGAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with JUGAL inside
3 words contain JUGAL in the middle. Words that start with JUGAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in JUGAL
Common questions about JUGAL
- Is JUGAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JUGAL, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JUGAL worth?
- JUGAL is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JUGAL mean?
- Relating to, or situated in the region of, the cheek or cheekbone.
- What letters can be added to JUGAL?
- JUGAL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JUGAL:
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