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Is gage a Scrabble word?

Yes, gage is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 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 gage?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (archaic) To bet or wager (something).Examples: "O doe not goe, this feaſt (I'le gage my life) / Is but a plot to trayne you to your ruine, / Be rul'd, you ſha'not goe."archaictransitive

2. (obsolete) To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.Examples: "A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king."obsoletetransitive

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.Examples: "[I]t seemed to create a sort of material link between the Princess and himself, and at the end of three months it almost appeared to him, not that the exquisite book was an intended present from his own hand, but that it had been placed in that hand by the most remarkable woman in Europe.... [T]he superior piece of work he had done after seeing her last, in the immediate heat of his emotion, turned into a kind of proof and gage, as if a ghost, in vanishing from sight, had left a palpable relic."obsoletetransitive

noun (English)

1. (American spelling, uncommon) Alternative spelling of gauge.USalt-ofalternativetransitiveuncommon

verb (English)

1. (American spelling, uncommon) Alternative spelling of gauge.USalt-ofalternativetransitiveuncommon

noun (English)

1. (slang, dated, uncountable) MarijuanaExamples: "Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart."; "Black faces, white tablecloth, gleaming very sharp knives lined up by the saucers... tobacco and "gage" smoke richly blended, eye-reddening and tart as wine, yowzah gwine smoke a little ob dis hyah sheeit gib de wrinkles in mah brain a proccess!"datedslangtransitiveuncountable

2. (archaic, UK, slang) A pint pot.UKarchaiccountableslangtransitiveuncountable

3. (archaic, UK, slang, metonymic) A drink.UKarchaiccountablemetonymicallyslangtransitiveuncountable

4. (archaic, UK, slang) A tobacco pipe.Examples: "Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry"UKarchaiccountableslangtransitiveuncountable

5. (archaic, UK, slang) A chamber pot.UKarchaiccountableslangtransitiveuncountable

6. (archaic, UK, slang) A small quantity of anything.Examples: "GAGE, a small quantity of anything; as “a gage of tobacco,” meaning a. pipeful; “a gage of gin,” a glassful."UKarchaiccountableslangtransitiveuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "gage"?

Scrabble
6 points
G2
A1
G2
E1
Words With Friends
8 points
G3
A1
G3
E1

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