EMBOX is valid in Collins, not in North America — 16 points
It depends on the list you play by. EMBOX is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 16 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept EMBOX?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EMBOX is to know. It scores 16 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EMBOX
No single letter turns EMBOX into another word.
How EMBOX scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in EMBOX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does EMBOX mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicrare
To enclose something in a box; to put something into a box.
Embox is an old term for the plain physical act of putting an item into a box for storage or transport. It appears in older dictionaries alongside the more common word box used as a verb, and it never developed a wider figurative sense. Modern writers rarely choose embox, favoring box or enclose instead. It survives today mainly as an entry in word lists rather than in active use.
How EMBOX is used
Rare and largely archaic; modern writers prefer box or enclose.
- The clerk would embox each sample before shipping it.
- Workers embox the finished goods at the end of the line.
- The old manual describes how to embox fragile items for the mail coach.
- She joked that they should just embox the leftover parts and be done.
- The instructions say to embox the tools rather than leave them loose.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EMBOX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with EMBOX
3 longer words begin with EMBOX.
Shorter words from the letters in EMBOX
Common questions about EMBOX
- Is EMBOX valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and EMBOX is not in it.
- How many points is EMBOX worth?
- EMBOX is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EMBOX mean?
- To enclose something in a box; to put something into a box.
- What letters can be added to EMBOX?
- No single letter can be added to EMBOX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of EMBOX:
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