What does PLAGUE mean?
- Pronunciation
- /pleɪg/
- Letters
- 6
- Scrabble score
- 9
- Words With Friends score
- 13
- How common
- Fairly common
Meaning
verb
- cause to suffer a blight“Too much rain may blight the garden with mold”
- annoy continually or chronically“He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”
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
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- a swarm of insects that attack plants“a plague of grasshoppers”
- any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
- an annoyance“those children are a damn plague”
Definitions from Princeton WordNet 3.0.
Other forms
plagued11plagues10plaguing12
Anagrams of PLAGUE
No other word in the ENABLE list uses exactly these letters.
Words inside PLAGUE
46 shorter words can be made from these letters. Here are the most useful.
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Questions
Is PLAGUE a valid word in word games?
PLAGUE is in the ENABLE word list, which many word games use, so it is very likely to be accepted. Check your game's own dictionary if a play is challenged.
How many points is PLAGUE worth?
PLAGUE is worth 9 points with Scrabble letter values and 13 with Words With Friends values, before any bonus squares.
What words can you make from PLAGUE?
46 other words, including UP, AGE, AL and PAGE.