QUANGO is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. QUANGO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUANGO?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUANGO is to know. It scores 16 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUANGO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
quangosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUANGO scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in QUANGO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What does QUANGO mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
A body funded by government but run at arm's length from it.
Quango is an acronym that stopped feeling like one, and it is almost never used approvingly: the word arrived in the 1970s and was a term of abuse within a decade. What it names is real and often necessary — a regulator, a board, a council — but the label carries a suspicion that somebody has been put out of reach of a vote.
How QUANGO is used
Countable: a quango, two quangos. Chiefly British and usually disparaging.
- Every government promises to abolish a quango or two.
- The regulator is a quango and answers to nobody in particular.
- Calling something a quango ends the argument without making one.
- Two quangos were merged and the staff numbers went up.
- The word quango does more work in a headline than in a report.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUANGO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUANGO
5 longer words begin with QUANGO.
Shorter words from the letters in QUANGO
Common questions about QUANGO
- Is QUANGO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUANGO, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUANGO worth?
- QUANGO is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUANGO mean?
- A body funded by government but run at arm's length from it.
- What letters can be added to QUANGO?
- QUANGO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of QUANGO:
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