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Is wag a Scrabble word?

Yes, wag is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of wag?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To play truant from school.Examples: ""My misfortunes all began in wagging, Sir; but what could I do, exceptin' wag?" "Excepting what?" said Mr. Carker. "Wag, Sir. Wagging from school." "Do you mean pretending to go there, and not going?" said Mr. Carker. "Yes, Sir, that's wagging, Sir.""; "They had "wagged it" from school, as they termed it, which..meant truancy in all its forms."; "[…] she wagged English and Science just to go in his car […]"Synonyms: see Thesaurus:play truantAustraliaNew-ZealandUKslang

2. (intransitive, chiefly obsolete) To go; to proceed; to move; to progress.Examples: ""Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags.""intransitiveobsolete

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To leave; to depart.Examples: "I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag."intransitiveobsolete

4. (intransitive, cricket, slang) Of the tail (lower order of the batting lineup): to score more runs than expected.Examples: "The tail wagged."intransitiveslang

noun (English)

1. (informal, originally UK, Ireland) A wife or girlfriend of a sports star or other celebrity, originally and especially of an association football player.Examples: "The World Cup WAGs are a good example of this. The younger girls, nicknamed the ‘hen-night crowd’ and led by Colleen McLoughlin, dance on tables and drink until the early hours while No. 1 WAG Victoria Beckham remains aloof, dining sedately with Ashley Cole’s fiancee, Cheryl Tweedy."; "In Wimbledon, the tennis WAGs and - just as excitingly - HABs (Husbands and Boyfriends) have been appearing courtside, enthusiastically cheering on their beloved other halves with a degree of style."; "They looked her up online and soon began following Ms. Riddle on social media, where she shares her life as a tennis WAG — an acronym for “wives and girlfriends,” popularized in Britain in the mid-2000s to describe, disparagingly, a group of preening, partying women attached to soccer players."Irelandinformal

noun (English)

1. (informal, business or military slang, US) A wild-assed guess; a rough estimate.USinformalslang

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "wag"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "wag"?

Scrabble
7 points
W4
A1
G2
Words With Friends
8 points
W4
A1
G3

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