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Is pong a Scrabble word?

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

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Is pong a Scrabble UK word?

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

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4-letter words (1 found)

PONG,

3-letter words (2 found)

GON,NOG,

2-letter words (5 found)

GO,NO,ON,OP,PO,

You can make 8 words from pong according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of pong

pong opng pnog npog onpg nopg pogn opgn pgon gpon ogpn gopn pngo npgo pgno gpno ngpo gnpo ongp nogp ognp gonp ngop gnop

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word pong. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in pong.

Definitions and meaning of pong

pong

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɒŋ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /pɔŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Etymology 1

Probably from Romani pan (“to stink”).

Noun

pong (plural pongs)

  1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A stench, a bad smell.
    • 1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109,
      She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong! Do they all smell like this?’
    • 2000, Susan Sallis, 2011, unnumbered page,
      ‘I see what you mean about the pong. I couldn′t smell it on myself but I can smell it on you!’
Related terms
  • pongy
Translations

Verb

pong (third-person singular simple present pongs, present participle ponging, simple past and past participle ponged)

  1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad.
    • 1997, Taufiq Ismail, David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!, Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories, page 97,
      On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.
    • 2009, Susan Brocker, Saving Sam, HarperCollins, New Zealand, unnumbered page,
      The place ponged, like the smell of stale cat pee.
    • 2011, Victor Pemberton, We′ll Sing at Dawn, 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing, unnumbered page,
      […] and this evening, Eileen Perkins′s daughter Rita ponged with the smell of cheap carbolic soap, after a late-afternoon visit to the public baths down Hornsey Road.
  2. (slang, theater, derogatory) To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.
  3. (slang, theater, intransitive) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.
Synonyms
  • (stink): reek, smell, stink
Translations

Etymology 2

From ping, via the pairing of ping-pong.

Noun

pong (plural pongs)

  1. (networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.

Etymology 3

Noun

pong (plural pongs)

  1. (mahjong) Alternative form of pung

See also

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pong

  1. ladle made from a gourd (used especially for rice beer)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 碰 (phòng). Compare English pung, Japanese 碰(ポン) (pon), Mandarin 碰 (pèng), Cantonese 碰 (pung3).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpoŋ/, [ˈpoŋ]

Noun

pong (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜅ᜔)

  1. (mahjong) pung (a set of three identical tiles)
  2. (playground games) the word that the tagged it says when catching a playmate, as in the game of hide and seek

Further reading

  • “pong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Source: wiktionary.org