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Is stang a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word stang is a Scrabble US word. The word stang is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is stang a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word stang is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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5-letter words (5 found)

ANGST,GANTS,GNATS,STANG,TANGS,

4-letter words (15 found)

ANTS,GANS,GANT,GAST,GATS,GNAT,NAGS,NATS,SANG,SANT,SNAG,STAG,TAGS,TANG,TANS,

3-letter words (16 found)

AGS,ANS,ANT,ATS,GAN,GAS,GAT,NAG,NAS,NAT,SAG,SAN,SAT,TAG,TAN,TAS,

2-letter words (7 found)

AG,AN,AS,AT,NA,ST,TA,

You can make 43 words from stang according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of stang

stang tsang satng astng tasng atsng stnag tsnag sntag nstag tnsag ntsag santg asntg snatg nsatg anstg nastg tansg atnsg tnasg ntasg antsg natsg stagn tsagn satgn astgn tasgn atsgn stgan tsgan sgtan gstan tgsan gtsan sagtn asgtn sgatn gsatn agstn gastn tagsn atgsn tgasn gtasn agtsn gatsn stnga tsnga sntga nstga tnsga ntsga stgna tsgna sgtna gstna tgsna gtsna sngta nsgta sgnta gsnta ngsta gnsta tngsa ntgsa tgnsa gtnsa ngtsa gntsa sangt asngt snagt nsagt ansgt nasgt sagnt asgnt sgant gsant agsnt gasnt sngat nsgat sgnat gsnat ngsat gnsat angst nagst agnst ganst ngast gnast tangs atngs tnags ntags antgs natgs tagns atgns tgans gtans agtns gatns tngas ntgas tgnas gtnas ngtas gntas angts nagts agnts gants ngats gnats

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Definitions and meaning of stang

stang

Pronunciation

  • enPR: stăng, IPA(key): /stæŋ/
  • Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English stang, stong, from Old English stæng, steng (“pole, rod, bar, stake, stick”), from Proto-West Germanic *stangi; reinforced by Old Norse stǫng; both from Proto-Germanic *stangiz, *stangō (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʰ-, *stegʰ- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”).

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

  1. (Wicca, paganism) A forked ritual staff.
  2. (archaic or obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
  3. (obsolete or historical) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
    • 1880, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels into several Remote Nations of the World - Part I, Chapter II (page 15):
      These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")
Derived terms
  • stang ball
  • ride the stang

Etymology 2

From Middle English stangen, from Old Norse stanga (“prick, goad”).

Verb

stang (third-person singular simple present stangs, present participle stanging, simple past and past participle stanged)

  1. (intransitive, Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting.
  2. (transitive, Scotland) To spear; to sting.

Etymology 3

Verb

stang

  1. (dialect, rare) simple past of sting

Etymology 4

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

  1. (slang, US) Short for "Mustang", a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.

Anagrams

  • 'ganst, Gnats, Tangs, Tsang, angst, gnast, gnat's, gnats, tangs

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng.

Noun

stang c (singular definite stangen, plural indefinite stænger)

  1. bar
  2. rod
  3. pole
  4. crossbar

Inflection

Derived terms

  • stangdrukken (adjective)
  • stangspring n
  • stangtøj n

References

  • “stang” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • steng

Etymology

From Middle Dutch stanghe, from Old Dutch *stanga, from Proto-West Germanic *stangu, from Proto-Germanic *stangō.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑŋ

Noun

stang m (plural stangen, diminutive stangetje n)

  1. bar

Related terms

  • stengel

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: sêtang
  • → Polish: stenga

See also

  • baar f
  • blok n
  • staaf f

Anagrams

  • angst

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng.

Noun

stang f or m (definite singular stanga or stangen, indefinite plural stenger, definite plural stengene)

  1. a bar, pole, rod, lever, staff, stick, shaft
  2. rod, 3.1374 metres

Derived terms

  • flaggstang
  • jernstang

See also

  • stong (Nynorsk)

References

  • “stang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “stang_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Swedish

Verb

stang

  1. past indicative of stinga

Source: wiktionary.org