SANGAR is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SANGAR 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 SANGAR?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SANGAR is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SANGAR
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sangarsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SANGAR scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SANGAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What stands out about SANGAR
- 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 SANGAR mean in Scrabble?
noun
A small defensive position built up from stones, sandbags, or sods rather than dug into the ground.
A sangar is a stone or sandbag breastwork thrown up quickly for cover, used where the ground is too hard or rocky to dig a trench, such as mountainous or desert terrain. The word entered English through soldiers serving on the northwest frontier of British India and has stayed in military use ever since, describing the same kind of improvised strongpoint in conflicts from the nineteenth century to the present. A sangar typically shelters only a small number of soldiers rather than an entire unit.
How SANGAR is used
A military term, historically associated with frontier warfare in South Asia and still used in modern combat accounts.
- The patrol took cover behind a hastily built sangar of loose stone.
- Soldiers stacked sandbags to raise the sangar another foot.
- From the sangar on the ridge, they watched the valley below.
- Two riflemen manned the sangar through the cold night.
- The old sangar had crumbled to little more than a scatter of rocks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SANGAR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SANGAR
The 6 tiles of SANGAR in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SANGAR
3 longer words begin with SANGAR.
Shorter words from the letters in SANGAR
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Common questions about SANGAR
- Is SANGAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SANGAR, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SANGAR worth?
- SANGAR is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SANGAR mean?
- A small defensive position built up from stones, sandbags, or sods rather than dug into the ground.
- What letters can be added to SANGAR?
- SANGAR takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SANGAR:
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