FANGA is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. FANGA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FANGA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FANGA is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FANGA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fangasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FANGA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FANGA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does FANGA mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An old Spanish or Portuguese unit of dry measure, roughly comparable to a bushel, once used for grain and other produce.
A fanga measured bulk quantities of grain, seed, or similar goods before metric units replaced local and regional measures across the Iberian world. Its exact size varied somewhat from region to region and over time, in the same way that many pre-metric measures differed from town to town. The word is closely related to fanega, a longer form of the same historical unit still remembered in discussions of old Spanish and Latin American weights and measures.
How FANGA is used
A historical unit, encountered mainly in older documents, colonial records, and studies of traditional measures rather than in modern use.
- The old ledger recorded the harvest in fangas of wheat.
- A single fanga of barley was owed to the landlord each autumn.
- Historians converted the fanga into modern litres for comparison.
- The merchant measured out three fangas of grain for the buyer.
- Colonial records still use the fanga to describe land and grain quantities.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FANGA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FANGA
1 longer words begin with FANGA.
Shorter words from the letters in FANGA
Common questions about FANGA
- Is FANGA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FANGA, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FANGA worth?
- FANGA is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FANGA mean?
- An old Spanish or Portuguese unit of dry measure, roughly comparable to a bushel, once used for grain and other produce.
- What letters can be added to FANGA?
- FANGA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FANGA:
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