MENAGE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. MENAGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MENAGE?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MENAGE is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MENAGE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MENAGE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in MENAGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 55,745.
What does MENAGE mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A household, meaning the people who live together under one roof and run their domestic life as a unit.
The word came into English from French, where it described both the running of a home and the family inside it. In English it is now mostly met in the borrowed phrase menage a trois, which names a household of three people in a romantic arrangement. Older writers also used it for the management of domestic affairs in general.
How MENAGE is used
Literary and rather old-fashioned on its own; today it appears chiefly inside the French phrase.
- The whole menage moved to the country for the summer.
- She kept the accounts of the menage in a small leather book.
- A strange menage had grown up around the old professor.
- The novel describes a menage of three friends sharing one flat.
- Nobody in the menage dared to wake him before noon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MENAGE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MENAGE
The 6 tiles of MENAGE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with MENAGE
4 longer words begin with MENAGE.
Shorter words from the letters in MENAGE
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Common questions about MENAGE
- Is MENAGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MENAGE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MENAGE worth?
- MENAGE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MENAGE mean?
- A household, meaning the people who live together under one roof and run their domestic life as a unit.
- What letters can be added to MENAGE?
- MENAGE takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of MENAGE:
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