PONGID is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PONGID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PONGID?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PONGID is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PONGID
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pongidsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PONGID scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PONGID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does PONGID mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
An ape belonging to the family Pongidae, a group that once included the chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.
Zoologists coined the term from the name of the family Pongidae, which they used for the large tailless apes other than humans. Newer classification has split that family, so the word now turns up mostly in older books and in discussions of primate history. A pongid differs from a gibbon in size and from a monkey in having no tail.
How PONGID is used
Technical and somewhat dated in science; seen in older primatology and anthropology texts.
- The orangutan is the pongid most closely tied to the rainforest trees.
- Early textbooks grouped every great ape as a pongid.
- The skull was clearly that of a pongid and not of a hominid.
- Each pongid in the study was weighed and measured twice.
- Researchers compared the hand of a pongid with the human hand.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PONGID and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PONGID
The 6 tiles of PONGID in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PONGID
1 longer words begin with PONGID.
Shorter words from the letters in PONGID
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Common questions about PONGID
- Is PONGID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PONGID, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PONGID worth?
- PONGID is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PONGID mean?
- An ape belonging to the family Pongidae, a group that once included the chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.
- What letters can be added to PONGID?
- PONGID takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PONGID:
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