Definitions for zig

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IPA: /zɪg/

Zig is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 8 anagrams from letters in zig (giz).

Definitions for zig

verb (used without object)

  1. to move in one of the two directions followed in a zigzag course:

Origin of zig

First recorded in 1785-95; extracted from zigzag

Examples for zig

This stream is very crooked and seems to run from the bluffs to the river in a perfect serpentine or zig zag direction.

Waarop zijnde gedelibereerd, hebben Ridders en Steden zig met het voorschr.

Zygadite, zig′a-dīt, n. a variety of albite found in thin twin crystals at Andreasberg, in the Harz Mountains.

So he raised his net high, and zig–zagged recklessly round the trees, through the bushes, up the banks and down them.

Waarmede de heere droste van Ysselmuijden zig heeft gevoegd.

This line is connected with the fire trenches by the zig zagged line of communicating trenches.

These zig zag politics produced the effect which any man conversant with public affairs might have foreseen.

The road was much of a zig zag over the bluffs, but only about a mile before we descended to the bottom.

These trenches are usually laid out in zig zag or curved lines (Fig. 39), to prevent enfilade fire from sweeping them.

Word Value for zig
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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