Dictionary Entry
phalanx
phalanx is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.
- 2noun
Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.
- 3noun
A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.
- 4noun
One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.
- 5noun
A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.
- 6noun
any of the bones of the fingers or toes
- 7noun
a body of troops in close array
- 8noun
any closely ranked crowd of people
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