TIG is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. TIG 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 4 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept TIG?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TIG is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TIG
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TIG scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in TIG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 998.
What does TIG mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectBritish
A children's chasing game in which whoever is caught becomes the chaser.
Tig is what the running about is called across the north of England and much of Scotland, where elsewhere in Britain it is tag, tick or it. The name is the touch itself, so you can tig somebody, and the one just tigged has to stop and count. Playground words like tig travel by voice rather than in print, which is why the map of them changes every few miles.
How TIG is used
Used without an article as the name of the game — playing tig, a round of tig — and as a verb for the touch that passes it on.
- They played tig in the yard until the bell went.
- He tigged her shoulder and ran for the wall.
- A game of tig needs nothing but flat ground and a truce line.
- The youngest is always tig and never manages to pass it on.
- Tigging in the corridor was banned by the second week of term.
- Nobody wanted to be tig, so they counted out for it.
- No tig on the steps, said the sign, and no ball games either.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TIG and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see TIG
- TIG welding takes its name from tungsten inert gas, and the three letters are said as a word rather than spelled out.
Anagrams of TIG
The 3 tiles of TIG in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with TIG
Showing 24 of 75 words that begin with TIG.
Words ending in TIG
2 words end in TIG. Useful as a back hook: play TIG onto a word already on the board.
Words with TIG inside
Showing 24 of 386 words that contain TIG somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TIG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TIG
Common questions about TIG
- Is TIG valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TIG, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TIG worth?
- TIG is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TIG mean?
- A children's chasing game in which whoever is caught becomes the chaser.
- What letters can be added to TIG?
- TIG takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of TIG:
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