PHANG is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. PHANG is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept PHANG?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PHANG is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PHANG
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PHANG scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PHANG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does PHANG mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To seize or grip something suddenly with the teeth, the way a snapping animal bites down on its prey.
Phang comes from the same old root as the noun fang, but it kept a separate life as a verb long after the noun went its own way. Writers used phang for the sudden bite of a dog or a wild creature, not for a slow chew, so the word always carries a sense of speed and surprise. It survives now only in quotation from older English, mostly in lines that describe an attack.
How PHANG is used
Archaic and literary; it turns up in older texts describing an animal biting rather than in ordinary modern speech.
- The old line describes how the hound did phang the stag by the throat.
- A writer of that century might phang a foe with a single sharp word instead of a blade.
- The mastiff was said to phang and hold, never letting the grip slip.
- In the play a beast is told to phang its prey before the hunters arrive.
- She read how the wolf did phang the sheep in the older translation.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHANG and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PHANG
3 longer words begin with PHANG.
Words ending in PHANG
2 words end in PHANG. Useful as a back hook: play PHANG onto a word already on the board.
Words with PHANG inside
19 words contain PHANG in the middle. Words that start with PHANG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PHANG
Common questions about PHANG
- Is PHANG valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PHANG is not in it.
- How many points is PHANG worth?
- PHANG is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PHANG mean?
- To seize or grip something suddenly with the teeth, the way a snapping animal bites down on its prey.
- What letters can be added to PHANG?
- PHANG takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PHANG:
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