LANGUE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. LANGUE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LANGUE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LANGUE is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LANGUE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LANGUE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in LANGUE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What stands out about LANGUE
- The same 6 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 LANGUE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The language system shared by a community, viewed as an abstract set of rules and conventions rather than any single act of speaking.
Linguists borrowed langue directly from French to name one half of a famous distinction introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure, who contrasted langue with parole, the actual, individual act of speaking. Langue covers the shared vocabulary, grammar, and sound system that make communication possible, while parole covers each speaker's particular use of that system on a given occasion. The term stays untranslated in English linguistics texts because ordinary speech does not separate the two ideas as cleanly as langue and parole do.
How LANGUE is used
A specialist term in linguistics, almost always paired with parole and rarely used outside academic writing.
- Saussure treated langue as a shared system existing independently of any one speaker.
- The professor asked students to distinguish langue from the messy variety of real speech.
- Grammar rules belong to langue, while a particular joke belongs to parole.
- Structuralist linguistics grew out of the study of langue as an abstract system.
- A dictionary is one attempt to describe the langue of a community in fixed form.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LANGUE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LANGUE
The 6 tiles of LANGUE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with LANGUE
7 longer words begin with LANGUE.
Shorter words from the letters in LANGUE
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Common questions about LANGUE
- Is LANGUE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LANGUE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LANGUE worth?
- LANGUE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LANGUE mean?
- The language system shared by a community, viewed as an abstract set of rules and conventions rather than any single act of speaking.
- What letters can be added to LANGUE?
- LANGUE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of LANGUE:
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