QUAGMIRE is a valid Scrabble word — 20 points
Yes. QUAGMIRE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 20 points in Scrabble and 23 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUAGMIRE?
| 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: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUAGMIRE is to know. It scores 20 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUAGMIRE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUAGMIRE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in QUAGMIRE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so QUAGMIRE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about QUAGMIRE
- All 8 letters of QUAGMIRE are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does QUAGMIRE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A stretch of soft, wet ground that gives way underfoot; also an awkward or hard-to-escape situation.
Quagmire began as a word for bog and is now mostly used figuratively for a mess of complications. The image is of sinking deeper the harder one struggles.
How QUAGMIRE is used
Quagmire is used for real marshland and, much more often, for political or legal tangles.
- The field turned into a quagmire after three days of rain.
- The talks sank into a legal quagmire.
- Their boots stuck fast in the quagmire.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUAGMIRE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUAGMIRE
2 longer words begin with QUAGMIRE.
Shorter words from the letters in QUAGMIRE
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Common questions about QUAGMIRE
- Is QUAGMIRE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUAGMIRE, where it scores 23 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUAGMIRE worth?
- QUAGMIRE is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUAGMIRE mean?
- A stretch of soft, wet ground that gives way underfoot; also an awkward or hard-to-escape situation.
- What letters can be added to QUAGMIRE?
- QUAGMIRE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of QUAGMIRE:
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