PENGO is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PENGO 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 PENGO?
| 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 PENGO is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PENGO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pengosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PENGO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PENGO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does PENGO mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
The basic unit of currency used in Hungary from 1927 until 1946, when it was replaced by the forint.
Hungary introduced the pengo in 1927 to stabilise its economy after the currency chaos following the First World War, and the new unit held its value reasonably well for over a decade. Wartime spending and the economic collapse that followed the Second World War drove the pengo into one of the most severe episodes of hyperinflation in recorded history, with prices doubling every few hours at its worst. The government abandoned the ruined currency in 1946, replacing it with the forint, which remains Hungary's currency today. Historians and economists still cite the pengo's collapse as a textbook example of runaway inflation destroying a national currency.
How PENGO is used
A historical term, met mainly in accounts of Hungarian economic history and discussions of hyperinflation.
- The museum displayed banknotes from the final months of the pengo.
- Economists studied the collapse of the pengo as a case of hyperinflation.
- Her grandfather still remembered spending pengo before the forint arrived.
- The pengo lost nearly all its value within a few years.
- Historians trace Hungary's postwar recovery from the ruins of the pengo.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PENGO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PENGO
1 longer words begin with PENGO.
Shorter words from the letters in PENGO
Common questions about PENGO
- Is PENGO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PENGO, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PENGO worth?
- PENGO is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PENGO mean?
- The basic unit of currency used in Hungary from 1927 until 1946, when it was replaced by the forint.
- What letters can be added to PENGO?
- PENGO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PENGO:
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