SAGANASH is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SAGANASH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SAGANASH?
| 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 SAGANASH is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SAGANASH
No single letter turns SAGANASH into another word.
How SAGANASH scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SAGANASH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| a | 3 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SAGANASH has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SAGANASH mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalregional
An Algonquian term for an Englishman or, more broadly, a white person.
The word saganash entered Canadian English from Algonquian languages and is found chiefly in older texts about the fur trade and frontier life. It is a loanword, not an English coinage, and is rarely used now.
How SAGANASH is used
Occurs in historical and regional writing about North America.
- The old trader wrote that the saganash had arrived by canoe.
- In the story, the village elder called the stranger a saganash.
- The dictionary lists saganash as a term of Algonquian origin.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SAGANASH and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SAGANASH
1 longer words begin with SAGANASH.
Shorter words from the letters in SAGANASH
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Common questions about SAGANASH
- Is SAGANASH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SAGANASH, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SAGANASH worth?
- SAGANASH is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SAGANASH mean?
- An Algonquian term for an Englishman or, more broadly, a white person.
- What letters can be added to SAGANASH?
- No single letter can be added to SAGANASH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SAGANASH:
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