WIGHT is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. WIGHT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WIGHT?
| 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 WIGHT is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WIGHT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WIGHT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WIGHT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does WIGHT mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
A living being or creature, especially a human being; in later fiction, a supernatural or undead creature.
Wight was once simply the ordinary word for a person or living creature in Old and Middle English, appearing in phrases such as a poor wight to mean an unfortunate person. As English developed, plainer words such as person, creature and being gradually replaced wight in everyday speech, leaving it to survive mainly in older poetry and archaic-sounding prose. Modern fantasy fiction and games have revived wight with a narrower meaning, using it for an undead or spectral creature that haunts ancient burial places. The two senses coexist today, with the older meaning found in historical texts and the newer meaning found in fantasy writing.
How WIGHT is used
Archaic in its original sense of a person, and revived in modern fantasy fiction to name an undead creature.
- The old ballad speaks of a poor wight lost in the storm.
- Medieval poems use wight where we would simply say person.
- The heroes fought a wight guarding the ancient burial mound.
- In the game, a wight rises from its grave at nightfall.
- The translator kept the archaic word wight to preserve the poem's tone.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WIGHT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WIGHT
4 longer words begin with WIGHT.
Words ending in WIGHT
1 words end in WIGHT. Useful as a back hook: play WIGHT onto a word already on the board.
Words with WIGHT inside
3 words contain WIGHT in the middle. Words that start with WIGHT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WIGHT
Common questions about WIGHT
- Is WIGHT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WIGHT, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WIGHT worth?
- WIGHT is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WIGHT mean?
- A living being or creature, especially a human being; in later fiction, a supernatural or undead creature.
- What letters can be added to WIGHT?
- WIGHT takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WIGHT:
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