Definition of phoenix

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• phoenix is a valid US Scrabble word with a point value of 19
• phoenix is a valid UK Scrabble word with a point value of 19
• phoenix is a valid Words With Friends word with a point value of 20

Meanings

Noun

• the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation
• a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
• a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years
• a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor

Synonyms

• Phoenix
• genus_Phoenix
• capital_of_Arizona
• phoenix