WANGAN is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. WANGAN 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 WANGAN?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WANGAN is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WANGAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
wangansChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WANGAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in WANGAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 367,917.
What does WANGAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A chest or boat used in a lumber camp for carrying food and supplies, or a small camp building on skids.
The word comes from an Algonquian language and was taken up by lumbermen in Maine and the north woods. A wangan could be the supply chest, the boat that followed the log drive with provisions, or a little hut hauled from camp to camp. Variant forms such as wanigan are also met in the same region.
How WANGAN is used
Regional logging vocabulary of North America; mostly historical now.
- The cook kept flour and beans in the wangan.
- A wangan floated behind the log drive with the tools aboard.
- The crew dragged the wangan to the next clearing.
- He sat on the wangan and mended his boot.
- The camp's wangan held the pay and the supplies.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WANGAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WANGAN
1 longer words begin with WANGAN.
Shorter words from the letters in WANGAN
Common questions about WANGAN
- Is WANGAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WANGAN, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WANGAN worth?
- WANGAN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WANGAN mean?
- A chest or boat used in a lumber camp for carrying food and supplies, or a small camp building on skids.
- What letters can be added to WANGAN?
- WANGAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of WANGAN:
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