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Is meager a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word meager is a Scrabble US word. The word meager is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is meager a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word meager is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

M3E1A1G2E1R1

Is meager a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word meager is a Words With Friends word. The word meager is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (2 found)

MEAGER,MEAGRE,

5-letter words (15 found)

AGREE,AMEER,EAGER,EAGRE,EMERG,GAMER,GEARE,GRAME,MARGE,MEARE,MERGE,RAGEE,RAMEE,REAME,REGMA,

4-letter words (20 found)

AGEE,AGER,AREG,EGER,EGMA,GAME,GARE,GEAR,GERE,GERM,GRAM,GREE,MAGE,MARE,MARG,MEER,MEGA,MERE,RAGE,REAM,

3-letter words (26 found)

AGE,AME,ARE,ARM,EAR,EME,ERA,ERE,ERG,ERM,GAE,GAM,GAR,GEE,GEM,GER,MAE,MAG,MAR,MEE,MEG,RAG,RAM,REE,REG,REM,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AG,AM,AR,EA,EE,EM,ER,MA,ME,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 75 words from meager according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of meager

meager

Alternative forms

  • meagre (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), West Frisian meager (“meager”), Dutch mager (“meager”), German mager, Icelandic magr whence the Icelandic magur, Norwegian Bokmål mager and Danish mager. Doublet of maigre.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmiɡɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmiːɡə/
  • Rhymes: -iːɡə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: mea‧ger

Adjective

meager (comparative meagerer, superlative meagerest) (American spelling) (Canadian spelling, common)

  1. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
  2. Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
    Synonyms: paltry, scanty, inadequate, measly
    A meager piece of cake in one bite.
    The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.
  3. (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
    Antonym: dense
  4. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:impoverished

Derived terms

  • meagerly
  • meagerness

Descendants

  • Jamaican Creole: mawga

Translations

Verb

meager (third-person singular simple present meagers, present participle meagering, simple past and past participle meagered)

  1. (American spelling, transitive) To make lean.

Anagrams

  • Graeme, meagre

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *māger, from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

Adjective

meager

  1. skinny, not well fed
  2. lean, lacking in fat

Inflection

Further reading

  • “meager”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org