SUBIRRIGATE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. SUBIRRIGATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SUBIRRIGATE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SUBIRRIGATE is to know. It scores 14 from 11 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SUBIRRIGATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SUBIRRIGATE scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in SUBIRRIGATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SUBIRRIGATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SUBIRRIGATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To water crops or soil from beneath the surface, for example through buried pipes.
Growers subirrigate so that moisture rises to the roots without wetting the leaves or the topsoil. It saves water lost to evaporation compared with spraying from above.
How SUBIRRIGATE is used
Subirrigate is a farming and horticulture term, often used with fields, lawns or greenhouse beds.
- They chose to subirrigate the greens with buried pipes.
- Farmers subirrigate low fields by raising the water table.
- You can subirrigate potted plants from a reservoir below.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SUBIRRIGATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SUBIRRIGATE
2 longer words begin with SUBIRRIGATE.
Shorter words from the letters in SUBIRRIGATE
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Common questions about SUBIRRIGATE
- Is SUBIRRIGATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SUBIRRIGATE, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SUBIRRIGATE worth?
- SUBIRRIGATE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SUBIRRIGATE mean?
- To water crops or soil from beneath the surface, for example through buried pipes.
- What letters can be added to SUBIRRIGATE?
- SUBIRRIGATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of SUBIRRIGATE:
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