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Yes. The word viga is a Scrabble US word. The word viga is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word viga is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

VAGI,VIGA,

3-letter words (3 found)

VAG,VIA,VIG,

2-letter words (3 found)

AG,AI,GI,

You can make 8 words from viga according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of viga

viga ivga vgia gvia igva giva viag ivag vaig avig iavg aivg vgai gvai vagi avgi gavi agvi igav giav iagv aigv gaiv agiv

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word viga. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in viga.

Definitions and meaning of viga

viga

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish viga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈviːɡə/
  • Rhymes: -iːɡə

Noun

viga (plural vigas)

  1. (New Mexico) A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village

Anagrams

  • GAVI, vagi

Asturian

Noun

viga f (plural vigues)

  1. beam

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vika, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swiką (“deception”). Cognates include Votic, Ingrian, and Finnish vika (“ailment, disease; fault, error; fault; defect; disability; disorder; bad habit”), Livonian vigā (“error; disease; fault; cause”), Karelian, Livvi, and Veps viga (“defect; error; fault; cause”) and Inari Sami vahe (“mistake; injury; illness”) (from Proto-Samic *vëkē).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈviɡ̊ɑ/, [ˈviɡ̊ɑ]
  • Rhymes: -iɡ̊ɑ
  • Hyphenation: vi‧ga

Noun

viga (genitive vea, partitive viga)

  1. mistake, error, fault (failure to comply with a rule, norm, standard, fact, etc., deviation from correct performance)
  2. flaw, defect, blemish, drawback (being out of order)
    Mis sul viga on? ― What's wrong with you? (literally, “What is your flaw?”)
    1. malaise; disease; injury
      Ärge tehke talle viga! ― Don't hurt him! (literally, “Don't make him any injuries!”)
  3. lack, deficiency (something that prevents from being perfect, a disturbing quality, tendency, or phenomenon, a weak or negative aspect)
  4. fault, blame; cause, reason

Declension

Synonyms

  • (flaw, defect): häire, rike
  • (disease): haigus, tõbi, häda
  • (lack): nõrkus, puudujääk, puudus
  • (fault, blame): süü

Derived terms

Compounds

References

  • viga in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “viga”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse vega (“to weigh”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to carry, move, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰe-, *weǵʰ-.

Verb

viga (third person singular past indicative vigaði, third person plural past indicative vigaðu, supine vigað)

  1. to weigh

Conjugation

Italian

Verb

viga

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive of vigere

Anagrams

  • Gavi, vagì

Livonian

Alternative forms

  • (Courland) vigā

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

Noun

viga

  1. fault

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

Noun

viga

  1. flaw
  2. defect

Nias

Noun

viga

  1. mutated form of figa (“plate”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain; probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”). Cognate with Spanish viga, Catalan and Occitan biga.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: vi‧ga

Noun

viga f (plural vigas)

  1. beam (large piece of timber or iron)
    Synonym: trave

Further reading

  • “viga” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain; probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”). Cognate with Portuguese viga, Catalan biga, Occitan biga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbiɡa/ [ˈbi.ɣ̞a]
  • Rhymes: -iɡa
  • Syllabification: vi‧ga

Noun

viga f (plural vigas)

  1. timber, beam, rafter, girder

Descendants

  • → English: viga

Further reading

  • “viga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology 1

Adjective

viga

  1. inflection of vig:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish vīghia, from Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

Verb

viga (present viger, preterite vigde, supine vigt, imperative vig)

  1. to marry; to unite in wedlock or matrimony
  2. to devote something for a specific purpose
Conjugation
Related terms
  • inviga
  • vigsel
  • vigvatten
  • ovigd
See also
  • gifta

Further reading

  • viga in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

  • giva

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

Noun

viga

  1. flaw
  2. defect
  3. failure, malfunction
  4. damage
  5. mistake

Inflection

References

  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “брак, дефект, изъян, неисправность, ошибка, повод, повреждение, порок, упущение”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Volapük

Noun

viga

  1. genitive singular of vig

Source: wiktionary.org