REGION is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. REGION is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept REGION?
| 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 REGION is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for REGION
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
regionsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How REGION scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in REGION, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,775.
What stands out about REGION
- The same 6 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does REGION mean in Scrabble?
noun
A part of a country, the world, or another space that has its own recognizable character, even without exact fixed borders.
Region can describe anything from a stretch of countryside with a shared climate or culture to an official administrative division of a country, and the same word extends to abstract areas such as a region of thought or a region of the body near a particular organ. Geographers, governments, and doctors all use region for different kinds of divisions, always keeping the core idea of a bounded but not always precisely marked area. In everyday speech, people also use in the region of loosely to mean approximately.
How REGION is used
Countable noun, used for geographic, administrative, bodily, and abstract areas alike.
- Wine growers prize this region for its warm, dry summers.
- The company reorganized its sales team by region.
- Doctors examined the swelling in the lower abdominal region.
- Rebels controlled a mountainous region in the north of the country.
- The bill came to somewhere in the region of two hundred dollars.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of REGION and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of REGION
The 6 tiles of REGION in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with REGION
20 longer words begin with REGION.
Shorter words from the letters in REGION
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Common questions about REGION
- Is REGION valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts REGION, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is REGION worth?
- REGION is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does REGION mean?
- A part of a country, the world, or another space that has its own recognizable character, even without exact fixed borders.
- What letters can be added to REGION?
- REGION takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of REGION:
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