What PLAGUED Means
PLAGUED is a form of PLAGUE, which means:
- noun: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- noun: any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- verb: cause to suffer a blight“Too much rain may blight the garden with mold”
- verb: annoy continually or chronically“He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PLAGUED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 L1 A1 G2 U1 E1 D2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In PLAGUED
133 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.
6 letter words (4)
5 letter words (17)
4 letter words (49)
AGEDAGLUAGUEAPEDAULDDALEDEALDEGUDUALDUELDULEDUPEEGADEGALGADEGAEDGALEGAPEGAUDGAUPGEALGELDGLADGLEDGLUEGUDEGULAGULEGULPLADELAUDLEADLEAPLEUDLUDELUGEPAGEPALEPAULPEAGPEALPELAPLEAPLEDPLUEPLUGPULAPULEUDAL
3 letter words (48)
AGEALEALPALUAPEAUEDAEDAGDALDAPDEGDELDUEDUGDUPEAUELDGADGAEGALGAPGAUGEDGELGUEGULGUPLADLAGLAPLEALEDLEGLEPLEULUDLUGPADPALPEAPEDPEGPELPLUPUDPUGPULULE
2 letter words (15)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.