HOGFISH is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. HOGFISH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOGFISH?
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOGFISH is to know. It scores 17 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOGFISH
No single letter turns HOGFISH into another word.
How HOGFISH scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in HOGFISH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,264 thousand.
What stands out about HOGFISH
- HOGFISH begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HOGFISH mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A large colourful wrasse of the western Atlantic, valued as a food fish.
The hogfish gets its name from its long, pig-like snout, which it uses to root among the sea floor for shellfish. Divers around Florida and the West Indies know the hogfish as a popular catch. The same name has also been given to other, unrelated fishes in older writing.
How HOGFISH is used
Hogfish most often names the Atlantic wrasse, though older texts apply it to other fishes.
- The hogfish picked a crab out of the sand with its long snout.
- Grilled hogfish was the special at the dock restaurant.
- A young hogfish cleaned parasites from a larger reef fish.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOGFISH and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOGFISH
1 longer words begin with HOGFISH.
Shorter words from the letters in HOGFISH
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Common questions about HOGFISH
- Is HOGFISH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOGFISH, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOGFISH worth?
- HOGFISH is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOGFISH mean?
- A large colourful wrasse of the western Atlantic, valued as a food fish.
- What letters can be added to HOGFISH?
- No single letter can be added to HOGFISH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of HOGFISH:
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