VAGRANCY is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. VAGRANCY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VAGRANCY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VAGRANCY is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VAGRANCY
No single letter turns VAGRANCY into another word.
How VAGRANCY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in VAGRANCY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so VAGRANCY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does VAGRANCY mean in Scrabble?
noun
The condition of wandering from place to place without a home or steady work.
Old laws treated vagrancy as an offence in its own right, punishing poverty itself. Modern writers use the word more often when describing that history than describing people today.
How VAGRANCY is used
Used in legal, historical and social writing.
- He was arrested for vagrancy in the winter of 1890.
- The law against vagrancy was finally repealed.
- Novels of the period often show vagrancy as a moral failing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VAGRANCY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in VAGRANCY
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Common questions about VAGRANCY
- Is VAGRANCY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VAGRANCY, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VAGRANCY worth?
- VAGRANCY is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VAGRANCY mean?
- The condition of wandering from place to place without a home or steady work.
- What letters can be added to VAGRANCY?
- No single letter can be added to VAGRANCY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of VAGRANCY:
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