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Is prong a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word prong is a Scrabble US word. The word prong is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is prong a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word prong is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

P3R1O1N1G2

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Yes. The word prong is a Words With Friends word. The word prong is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

PRONG,

4-letter words (5 found)

GORP,PONG,PORN,PROG,RONG,

3-letter words (6 found)

GON,GOR,NOG,NOR,ORG,PRO,

2-letter words (6 found)

GO,NO,ON,OP,OR,PO,

You can make 18 words from prong according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of prong

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Definitions and meaning of prong

prong

Etymology

From Middle English pronge, perhaps from Middle Low German prange (“stick, restraining device”), from prangen (“to press, pinch”), from Old Saxon *prangan, from Proto-West Germanic *prangan, from Proto-Germanic *pranganą (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preng- (“to wrap up, constrict”).

Akin to Lithuanian springstù (“to choke, become choked or obstructed”), Latvian sprañgât (“cord, constrict”), Ancient Greek σπαργανόω (sparganóō, “to swaddle”), σπάργανον (spárganon, “swaddling cloth”). See also prank, prance, prink.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɹɒŋ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /pɹɔŋ/
    • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /pɹɑŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Noun

prong (plural prongs)

  1. A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine.
  2. (sometimes figurative) A branch; a fork.
  3. (colloquial) The penis.
    • 2008, Andy Zaltzman on The Bugle podcast, episode 34, You Will Know Us By Our Knobbly Fruit.
      Hang on... That looks like... No, it can't be. Is that my wang!? Micky Paintbrush, have you painted my papal prong on that nudy man!?

Derived terms

  • pronghorn
  • prong-set

Translations

See also

  • tine
  • tooth

Verb

prong (third-person singular simple present prongs, present participle pronging, simple past and past participle pronged)

  1. To pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong.

Translations

Western Cham

Etymology

Cognate with Eastern Cham praong.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɣɔŋ/

Adjective

prong

  1. big

Source: wiktionary.org