PLAGAL is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. PLAGAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PLAGAL?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PLAGAL is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PLAGAL
No single letter turns PLAGAL into another word.
How PLAGAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PLAGAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 919,794.
What does PLAGAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
music
Describing a church mode or a cadence in which the melody or harmony moves in the lower half of the range, ending with the subdominant chord resolving to the tonic.
In music theory plagal is the partner of authentic: an authentic mode lies between its final note and the octave above, while a plagal mode sits a fourth lower, around its final. The best-known use today is the plagal cadence, the chord movement from IV to I that sets the "Amen" at the end of many hymns. The term comes from medieval Latin and reaches back to the Greek word for sideways.
How PLAGAL is used
Used in music theory and church music, mostly in the phrases plagal mode and plagal cadence.
- The hymn closes with a plagal cadence on the word Amen.
- Gregorian chant is classified into authentic and plagal modes.
- She marked the plagal movement from the subdominant to the tonic in the score.
- A plagal ending sounds softer and more restful than a dominant one.
- The teacher asked the class to find the plagal mode among the chants.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PLAGAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PLAGAL
Common questions about PLAGAL
- Is PLAGAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PLAGAL, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PLAGAL worth?
- PLAGAL is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PLAGAL mean?
- Describing a church mode or a cadence in which the melody or harmony moves in the lower half of the range, ending with the subdominant chord resolving to the tonic.
- What letters can be added to PLAGAL?
- No single letter can be added to PLAGAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PLAGAL:
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