OUTARGUING is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. OUTARGUING is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OUTARGUING?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OUTARGUING is to know. It scores 12 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OUTARGUING
No single letter turns OUTARGUING into another word.
How OUTARGUING scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in OUTARGUING, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OUTARGUING has to be built on the board across turns.
What does OUTARGUING mean in Scrabble?
verb
To defeat somebody in argument — the form ending in -ing.
Another verb built by putting out in front of an ordinary one, and among the most used of that family, because the thing it names happens constantly. Outarguing somebody is not the same as being right, and the distance between those two is most of what makes the word worth having.
How OUTARGUING is used
Present participle of outargue. Takes a person as its object.
- He has a talent for outarguing people who are correct.
- Outarguing a committee changes nothing at all.
- She spent the meeting outarguing everybody and lost the vote.
- Outarguing is a skill and being right is a separate one.
- There is no point outarguing somebody who is not listening.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OUTARGUING and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in OUTARGUING
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Common questions about OUTARGUING
- Is OUTARGUING valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OUTARGUING, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OUTARGUING worth?
- OUTARGUING is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OUTARGUING mean?
- To defeat somebody in argument — the form ending in -ing.
- What letters can be added to OUTARGUING?
- No single letter can be added to OUTARGUING to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of OUTARGUING:
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