PLAGE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PLAGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PLAGE?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PLAGE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PLAGE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
plagesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PLAGE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PLAGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does PLAGE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A bright, hot patch that appears in the visible surface layers of the Sun near a sunspot, most easily seen in images taken through a hydrogen-alpha filter.
Astronomers use plage to describe an area of the solar chromosphere that glows brighter than its surroundings because of concentrated magnetic activity, and a plage commonly appears before a sunspot group forms and lingers after the sunspots themselves fade. Solar observers track the size and brightness of a plage as one indicator of the Sun's changing activity over its roughly eleven-year cycle. The word comes from the French for beach, chosen because early observers thought the pale, textured patches resembled sand, though the astronomical plage has nothing to do with an actual shoreline. Specialised telescopes fitted with narrow-band filters remain the main tool for studying a plage in detail.
How PLAGE is used
A technical term from solar astronomy, used when describing bright magnetic regions of the Sun visible in filtered images.
- The observatory recorded a large plage near the active sunspot group.
- A plage often forms before visible sunspots appear on the surface.
- Astronomers compared images of the plage across several days.
- The hydrogen-alpha filter revealed a bright plage above the solar limb.
- Researchers linked the fading plage to the declining solar cycle.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PLAGE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PLAGE
The 5 tiles of PLAGE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PLAGE
1 longer words begin with PLAGE.
Shorter words from the letters in PLAGE
Common questions about PLAGE
- Is PLAGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PLAGE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PLAGE worth?
- PLAGE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PLAGE mean?
- A bright, hot patch that appears in the visible surface layers of the Sun near a sunspot, most easily seen in images taken through a hydrogen-alpha filter.
- What letters can be added to PLAGE?
- PLAGE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PLAGE:
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