SPARGE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. SPARGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPARGE?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPARGE is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPARGE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SPARGE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SPARGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What stands out about SPARGE
- The same 6 tiles also spell 5 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 SPARGE mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To sprinkle or spray with liquid, especially hot water poured over malt in brewing to wash out its sugars.
Brewers use the word sparge for the step in which hot water is trickled over the grain bed so that the last of the sugar rinses into the wort. Engineers use it differently, for bubbling gas through a liquid to stir it or drive out dissolved air. Both senses grow from an older meaning of scattering drops, and the noun names the act or the spray itself.
How SPARGE is used
Technical; most common in brewing and in process engineering.
- The brewer began to sparge the mash with water near boiling.
- Slowly sparge the grain so the sugars rinse out evenly.
- Workers sparge the tank with nitrogen to remove oxygen.
- Too fast a sparge can wash bitter tannins into the beer.
- She learned to sparge the malt without disturbing the grain bed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPARGE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPARGE
The 6 tiles of SPARGE in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with SPARGE
4 longer words begin with SPARGE.
Shorter words from the letters in SPARGE
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Common questions about SPARGE
- Is SPARGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPARGE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPARGE worth?
- SPARGE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPARGE mean?
- To sprinkle or spray with liquid, especially hot water poured over malt in brewing to wash out its sugars.
- What letters can be added to SPARGE?
- SPARGE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SPARGE:
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