Is PHONY valid in Words with Friends?

Yes. Words with Friends accepts PHONY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.

How many points is PHONY worth?

PHONY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.

What letters can be added to PHONY?

PHONY takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.

PHONY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points

Yes. PHONY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.

p3h4o1n1y4

PlayablePHONY · 5 letters · 13 pts Scrabble · 13 pts WWF

13points in Scrabble

13points in Words with Friends

5letters

1hook available

1 in 196,061odds of drawing this rack

Which word lists accept PHONY?

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: 36 / 100

36WORD POWER

Points per tile 35%

2.6

Hooks 25%

Bingo potential 20%

Tile availability 20%

Our own measure of how useful PHONY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated

Hooks for PHONY

Front hooks — 1

aphony14

Back hooks — 0

None.

Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.

How PHONY scores

Scrabble p3h4o1n1y4 13

Words with Friends p4h3o1n2y3 13

Face value of the 5 tiles in PHONY, before any board multiplier.

Tiles you need

Letter	Needed	In the bag
p	1	2
h	1	2
o	1	8
n	1	6
y	1	2

Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.

What does PHONY mean in Scrabble?

adjective

informal

Not genuine; false or fake while pretending to be real.

Something phony is designed, deliberately or not, to pass for real, whether that means a forged banknote, a faked accent or an insincere compliment. The word applies equally to objects, such as a phony antique sold as original, and to people, such as a phony expert who exaggerates their qualifications. Calling someone phony usually implies a judgement about their character, suggesting that their friendliness or claims cannot be trusted. The spelling phony is more common in North American English, alongside the older variant phoney used elsewhere.

How PHONY is used

Informal; used of people, claims or objects that pretend to be genuine but are not.

The dealer was arrested for selling phony paintings as originals.
His accent sounded phony the moment he raised his voice.
She dismissed the praise as phony flattery.
They exposed the charity as a phony front for fraud.
The watch turned out to be a cheap phony copy.

Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHONY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.

Words starting with PHONY

phonying17

1 longer words begin with PHONY.

Words ending in PHONY

Showing 24 of 27 words that end in PHONY. Useful as a back hook: play PHONY onto a word already on the board.

Words with PHONY inside

sulphonyl17 sulphonyls18 sulphonylurea21 sulphonylureas22

4 words contain PHONY in the middle. Words that start with PHONY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.

Shorter words from the letters in PHONY

hypo12 phon9 pony9 hyp11 hoy9 hop8 pho8 poh8 hon6 noh6 noy6 ony6 yon6 ho5 ny5 oh5 oy5 yo5 op4 po4 no2 on2

Common questions about PHONY

Is PHONY valid in Words with Friends?: Yes. Words with Friends accepts PHONY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
How many points is PHONY worth?: PHONY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
What does PHONY mean?: Not genuine; false or fake while pretending to be real.
What letters can be added to PHONY?: PHONY takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.

Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PHONY:

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