KLUDGE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. KLUDGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept KLUDGE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KLUDGE is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KLUDGE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How KLUDGE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in KLUDGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 517,384.
What does KLUDGE mean in Scrabble?
noun
informaltechnical
A clumsy, makeshift fix, especially in computing, that works for the moment but is poorly designed.
Programmers and engineers use kludge for a solution pieced together from whatever was at hand because there was no time for a proper one. It is not meant as praise: a kludge usually does the job but is ugly, fragile and hard to maintain. The word is also a verb, to kludge something together, and a variant spelling is kluge.
How KLUDGE is used
Informal and technical jargon; most at home in software and hardware talk.
- The patch was a quick kludge to keep the server running overnight.
- Nobody wanted to touch the old kludge in the billing code.
- We replaced the kludge with a proper design.
- His desk lamp was powered by an ugly kludge of wires and tape.
- Every kludge in the system had a story behind it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KLUDGE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of KLUDGE
The 6 tiles of KLUDGE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with KLUDGE
3 longer words begin with KLUDGE.
Shorter words from the letters in KLUDGE
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Common questions about KLUDGE
- Is KLUDGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts KLUDGE, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is KLUDGE worth?
- KLUDGE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KLUDGE mean?
- A clumsy, makeshift fix, especially in computing, that works for the moment but is poorly designed.
- What letters can be added to KLUDGE?
- KLUDGE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of KLUDGE:
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