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Is goanna a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word goanna is a Scrabble US word. The word goanna is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

G2O1A1N1N1A1

Is goanna a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word goanna is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

G2O1A1N1N1A1

Is goanna a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word goanna is a Words With Friends word. The word goanna is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

G3O1A1N2N2A1

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6-letter words (1 found)

GOANNA,

5-letter words (2 found)

GONNA,NGANA,

4-letter words (14 found)

AGON,ANAN,ANGA,ANNA,ANNO,ANOA,ANON,NAAN,NAGA,NANA,NANG,NANO,NONA,NONG,

3-letter words (11 found)

AGA,AGO,ANA,ANN,GAN,GOA,GON,NAG,NAN,NOG,NON,

2-letter words (7 found)

AA,AG,AN,GO,NA,NO,ON,

You can make 35 words from goanna according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of goanna

goanna

Etymology

A respelling in Australia of guana, from iguana. Rhyming slang sense rhyming on colloquial pronunciation 'pianner'.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ænə

Noun

goanna (plural goannas)

  1. Any of various monitor lizards native to Australia.
    • 1832, Coroner's Inquest, November 15, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, p. 3:
      Four goannas ran up the tree, and the animals of the bush had preyed so very lavishly on the remains of mortality that the thorax and other parts of the neck, together with various portions of flesh from the body, were missing.
    • 1849, The Ring, April 21, Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, p. 2:
      Hello! There's a goanna; that's a good sized one; but nothing to the one that I tumbled over when I was coming from the Big River.
  2. (Australia, rhyming slang) A piano.

Hyponyms

  • perentie

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Anagrams

  • Nagano

Source: wiktionary.org