OUTGROUP is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. OUTGROUP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OUTGROUP?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OUTGROUP is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OUTGROUP
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
outgroupsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OUTGROUP scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in OUTGROUP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OUTGROUP has to be built on the board across turns.
What does OUTGROUP mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A set of people who are felt to lie outside the group one belongs to.
Sociologists set an outgroup against the ingroup to explain loyalty, prejudice and rivalry. People often judge those in the outgroup more harshly and see them as all alike. In biology, an outgroup is also a species used as a reference point in evolutionary trees.
How OUTGROUP is used
Common in sociology, psychology and genetics, usually paired with ingroup.
- Fans of the rival club were treated as the outgroup.
- Researchers measured how members of the outgroup were described by the majority.
- Taxonomists picked a distant lizard as the outgroup for the tree.
- Every outgroup becomes less foreign once its members are known personally.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OUTGROUP and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OUTGROUP
1 longer words begin with OUTGROUP.
Shorter words from the letters in OUTGROUP
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Common questions about OUTGROUP
- Is OUTGROUP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OUTGROUP, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OUTGROUP worth?
- OUTGROUP is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OUTGROUP mean?
- A set of people who are felt to lie outside the group one belongs to.
- What letters can be added to OUTGROUP?
- OUTGROUP takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of OUTGROUP:
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