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Is vig a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word vig is a Scrabble US word. The word vig is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is vig a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word vig is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

V4I1G2

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Yes. The word vig is a Words With Friends word. The word vig is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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3-letter words (1 found)

VIG,

2-letter words (1 found)

GI,

You can make 2 words from vig according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of vig

vig ivg vgi gvi igv giv

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Definitions and meaning of vig

vig

Etymology

Clipping of vigorish, from Yiddish וויגריש (vigrish), from Russian вы́игрыш (výigryš, “winnings”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɪɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Noun

vig (countable and uncountable, plural vigs)

  1. (slang) Synonym of vigorish (“charge taken on bets”)
  2. (US slang, crime) Synonym of vigorish (“interest from a loan, as from a loan shark”)
    • 1973, Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin (screenplay), Mean Streets, quoted in 2009, Ellis Cashmore, Martin Scorsese's America, page 118,
      “You charged a guy from the neighborhood $1800 vig?” he asks incredulously (“vig” is short for vigorish, meaning a rate of interest from a loan from an illegal moneylender).
  3. Synonym of vigorish (“commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge”)

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *uig-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to revolve, turn, twist”). Cognate to Old English wice (“patch”) and Old Norse vik (“bight”).

Noun

vig m (plural vigje, definite vigu, definite plural vigjet)

  1. stretcher, litter, bier, transition (consisting of beams)

Declension

Derived terms

  • vigan

References

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viːˀ/, [ˈʋiˀ]
  • Homophone: hvi

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *wīkō (“village; inlet”), cognate with Norwegian, Swedish vik, English wick, Dutch wijk. Borrowed from Latin vīcus.

Noun

vig c (singular definite vigen, plural indefinite vige)

  1. inlet (arm of the sea)
Declension
Derived terms
  • mundvig

References

  • “vig” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vig

  1. imperative of vige

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse vígr.

Noun

vig m (definite singular vigen, indefinite plural vigar, definite plural vigane)

  1. fight, battle (only used in given names)

Related terms

Male given names:

Female given names:

References

  • “vig” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
  • Eivind Vågslid (1988) Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN, page 398

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian vég.

Noun

vig n (plural viguri)

  1. bolt of fabric

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viːɡ/
  • Rhymes: -iːɡ

Verb

vig

  1. imperative of viga

Adjective

vig (comparative vigare, superlative vigast)

  1. (of a person) limber, supple

Declension

Further reading

  • vig in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

  • giv

Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [viɡ]

Noun

vig (nominative plural vigs)

  1. week
  2. sennight, sevennight

Declension


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