QUAGGA is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. QUAGGA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUAGGA?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUAGGA is to know. It scores 17 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUAGGA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
quaggasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUAGGA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in QUAGGA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,759 thousand.
What does QUAGGA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
An extinct South African relative of the zebra, with stripes only on the front part of its body.
The last quagga died in a zoo in the 1880s after hunters had wiped out the wild herds. It is often cited as an example of an animal lost to human pressure.
How QUAGGA is used
Quagga appears in natural history and conservation writing.
- The museum keeps a rare skin of a quagga.
- No living quagga has been seen for over a century.
- A quagga had a brown back and pale legs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUAGGA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUAGGA
1 longer words begin with QUAGGA.
Shorter words from the letters in QUAGGA
Common questions about QUAGGA
- Is QUAGGA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUAGGA, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUAGGA worth?
- QUAGGA is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUAGGA mean?
- An extinct South African relative of the zebra, with stripes only on the front part of its body.
- What letters can be added to QUAGGA?
- QUAGGA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of QUAGGA:
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