Is PHONE a word?
PHONE is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words With Friends, has 5 letters, and can be rearranged into 1 other word, plus 21 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, PHONE is a valid word.
What does phone mean?
noun: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds.
“I talked to him on the telephone”
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
PHONE: word details
- Pronunciation: FOHN (approx., 1 syllable)
- Length: 5 letters, a medium-length word. It is one of 12,578 5-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 10 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 11 points on the tiles.
- Wordle: five letters, so PHONE works as a Wordle guess or answer.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of phone
Shorter words inside phone
Words you can make from the letters of phone.
Solve a whole rack, not just PHONE
PHONE is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does PHONE mean?
PHONE is a noun. It means: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds.
Is PHONE a valid word?
Yes, PHONE is a valid word. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.