MONGO is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. MONGO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MONGO?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MONGO is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MONGO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MONGO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MONGO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 74,690.
What does MONGO mean in Scrabble?
noun
A unit of money in Mongolia, worth a hundredth of a tugrik.
The mongo is another subunit that inflation took out of use: coins in it are no longer struck, and the figure survives on paper alone. Anybody meeting the word in a table of currencies is looking at something that has not bought anything for a very long time.
How MONGO is used
Countable: a mongo, two mongos. Historical in practice.
- Prices were once quoted in mongo and now never are.
- A mongo coin is worth more to a collector than to a shop.
- The table lists the tugrik and the mongo together.
- Nobody has been given change in mongo for years.
- The word mongo appears in reference works and nowhere else.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MONGO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MONGO
The 5 tiles of MONGO in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with MONGO
9 longer words begin with MONGO.
Words with MONGO inside
1 words contain MONGO in the middle. Words that start with MONGO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MONGO
Common questions about MONGO
- Is MONGO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MONGO, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MONGO worth?
- MONGO is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MONGO mean?
- A unit of money in Mongolia, worth a hundredth of a tugrik.
- What letters can be added to MONGO?
- MONGO takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MONGO:
Open MONGO in the Word Finder