SLAGGY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SLAGGY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SLAGGY?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SLAGGY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SLAGGY
No single letter turns SLAGGY into another word.
How SLAGGY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SLAGGY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,380 thousand.
What stands out about SLAGGY
- SLAGGY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SLAGGY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Resembling slag, the hard waste left behind when metal is smelted from ore.
Slag forms when ore is heated and the unwanted minerals fuse into a rough glassy mass, so a slaggy surface is lumpy, dark and full of cavities. Metalworkers and geologists use the adjective for rock, ash or cooled metal that looks like that residue. It can also describe ground covered with such waste, as around an old ironworks.
How SLAGGY is used
Technical or descriptive; used for metallurgical waste and rough volcanic rock.
- The hillside was slaggy and bare near the old ironworks.
- They picked a slaggy lump of cooled metal from the furnace floor.
- The path across the slaggy ground was hard on boots.
- A slaggy crust had formed over the cooling ingot.
- Geologists described the lava as dark and slaggy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SLAGGY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SLAGGY
Common questions about SLAGGY
- Is SLAGGY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SLAGGY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SLAGGY worth?
- SLAGGY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SLAGGY mean?
- Resembling slag, the hard waste left behind when metal is smelted from ore.
- What letters can be added to SLAGGY?
- No single letter can be added to SLAGGY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SLAGGY:
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