STANG is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. STANG is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STANG?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STANG is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STANG
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
stangsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How STANG scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in STANG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What stands out about STANG
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does STANG mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialecthistorical
A long pole or stake, especially one historically used to carry a wrongdoer through the streets in a public shaming ritual.
A stang was originally simply a wooden bar, pole, or shaft, a sense still used in some regional and historical writing. From this plain meaning grew the custom known as riding the stang, in which a community paraded someone accused of a moral offence while seated backwards on a pole, accompanied by noisy mock music. The word is now mostly historical or dialectal, surviving in descriptions of old rural customs rather than in current speech.
How STANG is used
Mostly historical or dialectal, met in descriptions of old rural shaming customs rather than in modern speech.
- The old chronicle described a stang carried through the village square.
- Villagers would ride the stang past the offender's door.
- A rough stang served as a makeshift fence post.
- The custom of the stang faded from most parishes by the nineteenth century.
- He carved a new stang to replace the broken one.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STANG and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of STANG
The 5 tiles of STANG in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with STANG
3 longer words begin with STANG.
Words ending in STANG
2 words end in STANG. Useful as a back hook: play STANG onto a word already on the board.
Words with STANG inside
6 words contain STANG in the middle. Words that start with STANG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in STANG
Common questions about STANG
- Is STANG valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STANG, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STANG worth?
- STANG is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STANG mean?
- A long pole or stake, especially one historically used to carry a wrongdoer through the streets in a public shaming ritual.
- What letters can be added to STANG?
- STANG takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of STANG:
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