QUARTERAGE is a valid Scrabble word — 20 points
Yes. QUARTERAGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 20 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUARTERAGE?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUARTERAGE is to know. It scores 20 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUARTERAGE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
quarteragesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUARTERAGE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in QUARTERAGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so QUARTERAGE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does QUARTERAGE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A payment or allowance made every three months.
Quarterage once meant a quarter-year sum paid to soldiers, workers or members of a guild. The word is now rare and is found mostly in older documents and histories of trade guilds.
How QUARTERAGE is used
Almost never heard today; quarterage belongs to historical and legal texts about regular payments.
- Each guild member owed a small quarterage to the hall.
- The clerk collected the quarterage on the first day of the season.
- His quarterage was paid late again.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUARTERAGE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUARTERAGE
1 longer words begin with QUARTERAGE.
Shorter words from the letters in QUARTERAGE
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Common questions about QUARTERAGE
- Is QUARTERAGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUARTERAGE, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUARTERAGE worth?
- QUARTERAGE is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUARTERAGE mean?
- A payment or allowance made every three months.
- What letters can be added to QUARTERAGE?
- QUARTERAGE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of QUARTERAGE:
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