VUGGIEST is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. VUGGIEST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VUGGIEST?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VUGGIEST is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VUGGIEST
No single letter turns VUGGIEST into another word.
How VUGGIEST scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in VUGGIEST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so VUGGIEST has to be built on the board across turns.
What does VUGGIEST mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Superlative of vuggy: most full of small cavities in the rock.
A vug is a small hollow inside rock, often lined with crystals, and geologists took the word from Cornish miners in the nineteenth century. Vuggy limestone is not a curiosity but a working category: those cavities hold oil and water, so how vuggy a rock is decides what can be got out of it, and the vuggiest bands are drilled first.
How VUGGIEST is used
Superlative of vuggy, with vuggier between them. Applied to rock and to the porosity itself, not to the crystals inside.
- The vuggiest section of the core crumbled as soon as it dried.
- They drilled the vuggiest band first and lost half the fluid into it.
- It is the vuggiest limestone in the quarry and the least use as stone.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VUGGIEST and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in VUGGIEST
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Common questions about VUGGIEST
- Is VUGGIEST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VUGGIEST, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VUGGIEST worth?
- VUGGIEST is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VUGGIEST mean?
- Superlative of vuggy: most full of small cavities in the rock.
- What letters can be added to VUGGIEST?
- No single letter can be added to VUGGIEST to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of VUGGIEST:
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