WAGGA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. WAGGA 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept WAGGA?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAGGA is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAGGA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
waggasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAGGA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WAGGA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What does WAGGA mean in Scrabble?
noun
Australianinformal
A rough blanket or bed covering made by stitching together empty sacks, used especially in rural Australia in place of a proper blanket.
A wagga was typically made from wheat or chaff sacks sewn together, sometimes with an old coat or extra sacking added for warmth, and it takes its name from the town of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, where sacks stamped with the town name were common. The covering was most closely associated with itinerant workers, shearers and families making do during hard times, especially the Depression of the 1930s. A wagga was heavy, coarse and far from comfortable, but it was cheap and warm when little else was available. Today the word mostly appears in accounts of rural Australian history rather than in everyday speech.
How WAGGA is used
Australian, chiefly historical; found in accounts of rural life and hard times rather than current everyday speech.
- The shearer rolled himself in a wagga against the cold night air.
- During the Depression, many families slept under a homemade wagga instead of a proper blanket.
- She stitched the wagga from old flour sacks and lined it with a worn coat.
- Museum displays of rural life often include a wagga made from stamped grain sacks.
- His grandfather still spoke of the wagga that kept the shearers warm on the track.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAGGA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WAGGA
1 longer words begin with WAGGA.
Shorter words from the letters in WAGGA
Common questions about WAGGA
- Is WAGGA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and WAGGA is not in it.
- How many points is WAGGA worth?
- WAGGA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAGGA mean?
- A rough blanket or bed covering made by stitching together empty sacks, used especially in rural Australia in place of a proper blanket.
- What letters can be added to WAGGA?
- WAGGA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WAGGA:
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