VULGO is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. VULGO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VULGO?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VULGO is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VULGO
No single letter turns VULGO into another word.
How VULGO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VULGO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does VULGO mean in Scrabble?
adverb
technicalarchaicrare
Commonly or popularly, as opposed to formally or scientifically; used chiefly to introduce a common name.
Vulgo is a Latin adverb that older scientific and scholarly writing used to introduce the everyday, popular name of a plant, animal, or substance right after its formal Latin designation, roughly meaning commonly called. Naturalists and taxonomists of past centuries relied on vulgo to bridge technical Latin nomenclature and the ordinary names people actually used, a habit largely replaced today by plainer English phrasing. The word also carried a broader Latin sense referring to the common people or the masses, the root from which the English word vulgar eventually developed. Because vulgo rarely appears outside older scholarly texts, encountering it today usually signals a historical or classicizing style of writing.
How VULGO is used
Vulgo is a rare, learned borrowing from Latin, met mainly in older scientific or scholarly writing rather than in everyday English.
- The naturalist listed the plant's Latin name, vulgo the wild carrot.
- Older botanical texts often add vulgo before the common name.
- The manuscript used vulgo to gloss unfamiliar Latin terms.
- He revived the old term vulgo for deliberate antiquarian effect.
- The catalogue entry read simply vulgo the sea holly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VULGO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in VULGO
Common questions about VULGO
- Is VULGO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VULGO, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VULGO worth?
- VULGO is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VULGO mean?
- Commonly or popularly, as opposed to formally or scientifically; used chiefly to introduce a common name.
- What letters can be added to VULGO?
- No single letter can be added to VULGO to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VULGO:
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