TAGGY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. TAGGY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept TAGGY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TAGGY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TAGGY
Front hooks — 1
staggyBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How TAGGY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TAGGY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 232,369.
What does TAGGY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Matted or tangled into thick clumps, especially wool, hair or fur that has stuck together.
Taggy describes fleece, hair or fur that has clumped into stiff mats rather than lying loose and separate, a state shearers and spinners needed to work out before wool could be carded. The word is unrelated to tacky, which is about stickiness rather than tangling, even though the two sound alike. It survives mainly in farming and wool-trade dialect rather than in everyday speech. A taggy fleece slows down every later stage of processing, from washing to spinning.
How TAGGY is used
Regional dialect, chiefly used of wool, hair and fur rather than other materials.
- The taggy fleece took an hour longer to comb out.
- Rain had left the dog's coat taggy and full of knots.
- Spinners set the taggy locks aside for a second wash.
- A taggy patch near the tail is common on this breed.
- She picked the taggy bits out before carding the wool.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TAGGY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in TAGGY
1 words end in TAGGY. Useful as a back hook: play TAGGY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in TAGGY
Common questions about TAGGY
- Is TAGGY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TAGGY is not in it.
- How many points is TAGGY worth?
- TAGGY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TAGGY mean?
- Matted or tangled into thick clumps, especially wool, hair or fur that has stuck together.
- What letters can be added to TAGGY?
- TAGGY takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TAGGY:
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