WAG is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. WAG is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WAG?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAG is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAG
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAG scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in WAG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,994.
What does WAG mean in Scrabble?
verb
To move from side to side, as a dog's tail does.
Wag is used of tails and of tongues and of very little else: the phrase about tongues wagging is as fixed as the animal one. A separate wag is a joker, and that word is clipped from an older term for somebody who deserved hanging.
How WAG is used
Intransitive and transitive. The unrelated noun means a joker.
- The dog wags at everybody including the postman.
- Tongues will wag whatever anybody says.
- He wagged a finger and said nothing at all.
- A wag in the office had renamed every folder.
- A wag in the joking sense comes from a much darker word.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAG and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WAG
The 3 tiles of WAG in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WAG
Showing 24 of 78 words that begin with WAG.
Words ending in WAG
7 words end in WAG. Useful as a back hook: play WAG onto a word already on the board.
Words with WAG inside
Showing 24 of 68 words that contain WAG somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WAG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WAG
Common questions about WAG
- Is WAG valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WAG, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WAG worth?
- WAG is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAG mean?
- To move from side to side, as a dog's tail does.
- What letters can be added to WAG?
- WAG takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of WAG:
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