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SCRAG

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What SCRAG Means

  1. noun: a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
  2. noun: lean end of the neck
  3. verb: strangle with an iron collar“people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain”
  4. verb: wring the neck of“The man choked his opponent”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SCRAG is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 C3 R1 A1 G2.

Anagrams of SCRAG (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SCRAG

23 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.

4 letter words (8)

3 letter words (12)

2 letter words (3)

Longer Words Containing SCRAG

SCRAG appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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