SCROGGY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. SCROGGY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCROGGY?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCROGGY is to know. It scores 14 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCROGGY
No single letter turns SCROGGY into another word.
How SCROGGY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in SCROGGY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,948 thousand.
What stands out about SCROGGY
- SCROGGY gets by on a single vowel across 7 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SCROGGY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialectrare
Covered with stunted bushes and rough undergrowth, or twisted and stunted in growth.
Scroggy comes from northern English and Scots usage, where a scrog is a stunted bush. The word paints poor ground choked with low scrub. Few speakers use it now outside regional writing.
How SCROGGY is used
Scroggy is a rare dialect word for scrubby, stunted land or growth.
- The path led through scroggy ground beside the stream.
- A scroggy thorn bush stood on the bare hill.
- Sheep grazed the scroggy slope above the farm.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCROGGY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SCROGGY
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Common questions about SCROGGY
- Is SCROGGY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCROGGY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCROGGY worth?
- SCROGGY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCROGGY mean?
- Covered with stunted bushes and rough undergrowth, or twisted and stunted in growth.
- What letters can be added to SCROGGY?
- No single letter can be added to SCROGGY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of SCROGGY:
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