Is HOG a Scrabble word?
Yes. HOG is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends.
Meaning Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
Noun 4 meanings
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
“Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog.”
A young sheep that has not been shorn.
A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
Verb 4 meanings
To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
“Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.”
To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
Etymology
From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to beat, hew, forge”). Cognate with Old High German houwan, Old Saxon hauwan, Old English hēawan (English hew).
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HOG at a glance
HOG has 3 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (H 4 + O 1 + G 2) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #13,304 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -HOG
More endings- HEDGEHOG17
- GROUNDHOG15
- WARTHOG14
- QUAHOG19
- SHOG8
- SANDHOG12
- MUMMICHOG21
- CHOG10
- COHOG11
- QUOHOG19
- SEAHOG10
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