ORIGAN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ORIGAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ORIGAN?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ORIGAN is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ORIGAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ORIGAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ORIGAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 17,033.
What stands out about ORIGAN
- The same 6 tiles also spell 3 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 ORIGAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanyliterary
Wild marjoram, a fragrant herb of the genus Origanum, also known in cooking as oregano.
Origan is an older name for the same aromatic herb now usually sold and cooked with under the name oregano, and both words trace back to the same Greek root. Herbalists and older cookbooks favored origan when describing the wild form of marjoram gathered from a hillside rather than grown as a kitchen herb. Botanists still use origan when referring broadly to the genus Origanum, which includes both oregano and sweet marjoram. Today the word survives mostly in literary, historical, or specialist botanical writing rather than in ordinary kitchen talk.
How ORIGAN is used
A literary and botanical name for wild marjoram, largely replaced in everyday cooking by oregano.
- The herbalist gathered origan from the dry hillside.
- Older recipes call for origan where a modern one would say oregano.
- Botanists classify origan among the aromatic mints.
- The garden bed was planted with origan and thyme.
- His poem describes the scent of origan on the summer wind.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ORIGAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ORIGAN
The 6 tiles of ORIGAN in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with ORIGAN
5 longer words begin with ORIGAN.
Shorter words from the letters in ORIGAN
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Common questions about ORIGAN
- Is ORIGAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ORIGAN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ORIGAN worth?
- ORIGAN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ORIGAN mean?
- Wild marjoram, a fragrant herb of the genus Origanum, also known in cooking as oregano.
- What letters can be added to ORIGAN?
- ORIGAN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ORIGAN:
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