OUTAGE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. OUTAGE 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 OUTAGE?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OUTAGE is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OUTAGE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
outagesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OUTAGE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OUTAGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,162.
What does OUTAGE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A period during which a supply of power, service, or equipment is not available or is shut down.
An outage most often refers to an interruption in electricity, water, or telephone service, but the word extends naturally to any planned or unplanned suspension, such as a computer system outage during maintenance. Utility companies distinguish a planned outage, scheduled for repairs or upgrades, from an unplanned outage caused by storms, accidents, or equipment failure. In the oil and shipping trades, an older, more technical sense of outage instead names the amount of liquid lost during storage or transport. Most readers today, however, meet outage almost exclusively in the sense of a service interruption.
How OUTAGE is used
A common noun for a service interruption, especially of electricity, water, or computer systems.
- The storm caused a power outage across most of the county.
- Technicians scheduled a brief outage to update the servers.
- Residents lit candles during the long outage.
- The airline blamed the delay on a computer outage.
- Engineers traced the outage to a failed transformer.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OUTAGE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OUTAGE
1 longer words begin with OUTAGE.
Shorter words from the letters in OUTAGE
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Common questions about OUTAGE
- Is OUTAGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OUTAGE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OUTAGE worth?
- OUTAGE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OUTAGE mean?
- A period during which a supply of power, service, or equipment is not available or is shut down.
- What letters can be added to OUTAGE?
- OUTAGE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OUTAGE:
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