sergeant S₁E₁R₁G₂E₁A₁N₁T₁

Sergeant is an eight-letter word for a military rank, most often described as a UK army rank between corporal and warrant officer ranks. Its Scrabble face value is 9 points, and its recorded meanings also include a bailiff and a servant in monastic offices. The anagrams range from REAGENTS to less familiar words.

Sergeant meaning and word facts

• SERGEANT has eight letters and is marked as a common English word.
• Its Scrabble face value is 9: seven tiles score 1 point, while G scores 2.
• REAGENTS is one of its seven anagrams; ESTRANGE is another.
• SERJEANT is the sole one-letter neighbour, differing at the fourth letter.
• The word has military, bailiff, and monastic-servant meanings.

What does sergeant mean?

Sergeant means a noncommissioned military rank; the UK army sense places it above corporal and below warrant officer ranks. In some non-naval forces and police, it is the highest noncommissioned rank.

Other recorded senses are a bailiff and a servant in monastic offices. Those older meanings are worth keeping in mind when a clue uses “sergeant” without a modern military setting; they are meanings of the same word, not alternate spellings.

The eight Scrabble tiles total 9 points: S, E, R, E, A, N, and T are each worth 1, while G is worth 2. That modest total comes from a long word built almost entirely from low-value tiles.

Which anagrams use sergeant’s letters?

Seven anagrams use the same letters as SERGEANT. REAGENTS and GRANTEES are recognizable examples; ESTRANGE and GREATENS are other rearrangements. NEGATERS, SEGREANT, and STERNAGE complete the set, but several are uncommon enough to be poor guesses without a crossing letter.

SERJEANT is the only word one letter away, with J replacing G in the fourth position. A clue asking for the sergeant meaning points to the rank, while a letter puzzle might instead be testing that near-match. Check your game’s word list before relying on the less familiar anagrams.