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phoenix

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Is phoenix a Scrabble word?

Yes, phoenix is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 19 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of phoenix?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.Examples: "burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood"

2. (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.Examples: "Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes."; "Lord Allerton was that modern phœnix, a young man, without a single objection."; "Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days."figuratively

3. (Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.Chinese

4. (historical) A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.Examples: "The national currency, the phoenix, which had been established by Kapodistrias, was renamed after an ancient Greek coin, the drachma."historical

5. (obsolete) A marvelous person or thing.Examples: "He may not be a phœnix of cleverness in your sense; his profession is different; but it would be all the better for you to talk a little on his subjects."obsolete

verb (English)

1. (Australia) To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liabilityExamples: "Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association CEO John Winter said phoenixing has been "endemic" for decades."; "The ATO defines iIllegal^([sic – meaning illegal]) phoenixing as when a new company is created to continue the business of a company that has been deliberately liquidated to avoid paying its debts, including taxes, creditors and employee entitlements."Australia

name (English)

1. (mythology) A mythical firebird; especially the sacred one from ancient Egyptian mythology.

2. (astronomy) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the mythical bird. It lies north of Tucana.

3. (Greek mythology) A character in the Iliad and father of Adonis in Greek mythology or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus.Greek

4. (as "the Phoenix") A nickname sometimes used for Japan after World War II.

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "phoenix"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "phoenix"?

Scrabble
19 points
P3
H4
O1
E1
N1
I1
X8
Words With Friends
20 points
P4
H3
O1
E1
N2
I1
X8

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