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DIG

3 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What DIG Means

  1. verb: turn up, loosen, or remove earth“Dig we must”
  2. verb: create by digging“dig a hole”
  3. noun: the site of an archeological exploration“they set up camp next to the dig”
  4. noun: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect“his parting shot was ‘drop dead’”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DIG is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 I1 G2.

Anagrams of DIG (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In DIG

3 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

2 letter words (3)

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