ROUGE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ROUGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ROUGE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ROUGE is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROUGE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ROUGE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ROUGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,892.
What stands out about ROUGE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 ROUGE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A red powder or cream cosmetic applied to the cheeks or lips to add colour to the face.
Rouge gets its name from the French word for red, and it has been used for centuries to brighten pale cheeks or lips with a warm pink or red tint. The same word works as a verb, so a person can rouge her cheeks rather than simply apply rouge to them. Jewellers and metalworkers also use a fine red abrasive powder called rouge for polishing glass, metal, and gemstones, a completely different use of the same name. In Canadian football, rouge names a single point scored when a kicked ball is not returned out of the end zone, a specialist sporting sense far from the cosmetic.
How ROUGE is used
Common as a cosmetics term for cheek or lip colour, with specialist secondary uses in polishing and in Canadian football scoring.
- She dabbed a little rouge on her cheeks before the photograph.
- The actress used dark rouge to make her cheekbones stand out.
- He polished the lens with jeweller's rouge until it gleamed.
- The kicker's missed field goal was recorded as a single rouge.
- Old portraits often show sitters with unnaturally bright rouge on their faces.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROUGE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ROUGE
The 5 tiles of ROUGE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with ROUGE
2 longer words begin with ROUGE.
Words ending in ROUGE
1 words end in ROUGE. Useful as a back hook: play ROUGE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ROUGE inside
6 words contain ROUGE in the middle. Words that start with ROUGE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ROUGE
Common questions about ROUGE
- Is ROUGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROUGE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROUGE worth?
- ROUGE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROUGE mean?
- A red powder or cream cosmetic applied to the cheeks or lips to add colour to the face.
- What letters can be added to ROUGE?
- ROUGE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ROUGE:
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