VAG is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. VAG 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 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept VAG?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VAG is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VAG
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VAG scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in VAG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,994.
What does VAG mean in Scrabble?
verb
informalNorth American
To arrest someone on a charge of vagrancy.
To vag a person meant taking them into custody simply for having no fixed address or visible means of support, a practice common in early twentieth-century American policing. The word is a clipped form of vagrant, the same way slang often shortens longer legal terms.
How VAG is used
Historical police slang; rarely used to describe modern practice.
- The officer moved to vag the man sleeping in the doorway.
- Police used to vag anyone without a listed address.
- He was vagged twice that winter for sleeping in the park.
- The old law let constables vag drifters passing through town.
- Nobody wanted to be vagged before the harvest work began.
- The sheriff threatened to vag the whole camp of workers.
- She wrote about being vagged in her memoir of the Depression.
- Officers no longer vag people simply for being homeless.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VAG and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see VAG
- The verb is a clipped form of vagrant, the noun it derives from.
- Vagging as a routine police practice was common in early twentieth-century America before vagrancy laws were narrowed.
Words starting with VAG
Showing 24 of 81 words that begin with VAG.
Words with VAG inside
Showing 24 of 133 words that contain VAG somewhere in the middle. Words that start with VAG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in VAG
Common questions about VAG
- Is VAG valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and VAG is not in it.
- How many points is VAG worth?
- VAG is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VAG mean?
- To arrest someone on a charge of vagrancy.
- What letters can be added to VAG?
- VAG takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of VAG:
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