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Is fangle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fangle is a Scrabble US word. The word fangle is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

F4A1N1G2L1E1

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Yes. The word fangle is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

F4A1N1G2L1E1

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6-letter words (2 found)

FANGLE,FLANGE,

5-letter words (6 found)

ANGEL,ANGLE,FLANE,GANEF,GENAL,GLEAN,

4-letter words (24 found)

AGEN,ALEF,EGAL,ELAN,FANE,FANG,FEAL,FLAG,FLAN,FLEA,FLEG,GAEN,GALE,GANE,GEAL,GEAN,GENA,GLEN,LANE,LANG,LEAF,LEAN,LENG,NEAL,

3-letter words (24 found)

AGE,ALE,ALF,ANE,EAN,ELF,ENG,FAE,FAG,FAN,FEG,FEN,GAE,GAL,GAN,GEL,GEN,LAG,LEA,LEG,NAE,NAG,NEF,NEG,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AG,AL,AN,EA,EF,EL,EN,FA,FE,LA,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 70 words from fangle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fangle

fangle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfæŋ.ɡəl/
  • Rhymes: -æŋɡəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English fangelen (verb), from fangel (“inclined to take”, adjective), from Old English *fangol, *fangel (“inclined to take”), from fōn (“to take, seize”). Compare Old English andfangol (“undertaker, contractor”), Old English underfangelnes (“undertaking, hospitality”), Middle English fangen (“to take, seize, catch”), German fangen (“to catch”). More at fang, onfang.

Verb

fangle (third-person singular simple present fangles, present participle fangling, simple past and past participle fangled)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
    • Jonathan Swift (1726) Gulliver's Travels, 1st edition: “But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new-fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remember upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.”
  2. (obsolete or dialectal) To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
  3. (obsolete or dialectal) To waste time; trifle.
Usage notes

Although obsolete in general English, the verb is still occasionally used in some regions, and is retained in the expression newfangled.

Derived terms
  • fangleness
  • newfangle
  • newfangled

Etymology 2

Back-formation from newfangled (adjective) as if new + fangle (noun). See newfangle.

Noun

fangle (plural fangles)

  1. (obsolete) A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
  2. Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
  3. A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
  4. A conceit; whim.
Derived terms
  • fingle-fangle

Anagrams

  • flange

Source: wiktionary.org