FLIXING is valid in Collins, not in North America — 18 points
It depends on the list you play by. FLIXING 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 18 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FLIXING?
| 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: 55 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FLIXING is to know. It scores 18 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FLIXING
No single letter turns FLIXING into another word.
How FLIXING scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in FLIXING, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,088 thousand.
What does FLIXING mean in Scrabble?
verb
raredialect
To melt, or to be in the process of melting, as expressed by the present-participle form flixing of the old dialect verb flix.
Flixing describes the ongoing act of melting, built from flix, a rare dialect variant related to flux. The word appears almost exclusively in older regional word lists rather than in general use.
How FLIXING is used
Extremely rare, found mainly in dialect glossaries.
- The old miller spoke of the ice flixing along the millrace each spring.
- Snow was slowly flixing off the roof by midday.
- The blacksmith watched the metal flixing in the heat of the forge.
- Wax kept flixing down the side of the candle.
- By afternoon the frost was flixing away from the window glass.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FLIXING and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FLIXING
Common questions about FLIXING
- Is FLIXING valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FLIXING is not in it.
- How many points is FLIXING worth?
- FLIXING is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FLIXING mean?
- To melt, or to be in the process of melting, as expressed by the present-participle form flixing of the old dialect verb flix.
- What letters can be added to FLIXING?
- No single letter can be added to FLIXING to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of FLIXING:
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