PHONOLOGY is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. PHONOLOGY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PHONOLOGY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PHONOLOGY is to know. It scores 18 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PHONOLOGY
No single letter turns PHONOLOGY into another word.
How PHONOLOGY scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in PHONOLOGY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 3 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PHONOLOGY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PHONOLOGY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The branch of linguistics that studies how speech sounds are organised into systems within a language.
Where phonetics measures the physical sounds of speech, phonology asks which sound differences actually matter to speakers. A student of phonology might explain why English speakers hear two different sounds as one.
How PHONOLOGY is used
Used in academic and linguistic contexts when discussing the sound patterns of a language, as in the phonology of Spanish.
- She wrote her thesis on the phonology of regional accents.
- The course covers syntax, semantics and phonology.
- English phonology allows some consonant clusters that other languages forbid.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHONOLOGY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about PHONOLOGY
- Is PHONOLOGY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PHONOLOGY, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PHONOLOGY worth?
- PHONOLOGY is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PHONOLOGY mean?
- The branch of linguistics that studies how speech sounds are organised into systems within a language.
- What letters can be added to PHONOLOGY?
- No single letter can be added to PHONOLOGY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of PHONOLOGY:
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