FLOX is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. FLOX 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FLOX?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FLOX is to know. It scores 14 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FLOX
No single letter turns FLOX into another word.
How FLOX scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in FLOX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 61,269.
What does FLOX mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalarchaic
An old spelling of floss, the loose, lightly twisted silk fibre used in embroidery thread and as soft padding.
Flox appears in older needlework and trade writing as a variant of floss, describing the same soft, untwisted silk strands. Embroiderers valued flox for its sheen and its ability to lie flat when stitched, and the spelling lingered in pattern books after floss became the standard term.
How FLOX is used
Found mainly in older embroidery and textile texts rather than modern usage.
- The pattern book called for two skeins of flox in pale blue.
- She threaded the needle with flox to add a soft sheen to the petals.
- The upholsterer padded the cushion with a handful of flox.
- Old sewing manuals list flox alongside silk and wool thread.
- The tailor kept a spool of flox for delicate embroidery work.
- Flox catches the light differently than twisted silk thread.
- The museum label described the gown's trim as worked in flox.
- Collectors of antique needlework still search for genuine flox.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FLOX and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see FLOX
- Flox and floss both trace back to the same French root meaning a tuft of silk.
- The spelling flox mostly survives today in old sewing pattern books and specialist textile glossaries.
Words with FLOX inside
2 words contain FLOX in the middle. Words that start with FLOX are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FLOX
Common questions about FLOX
- Is FLOX valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FLOX is not in it.
- How many points is FLOX worth?
- FLOX is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FLOX mean?
- An old spelling of floss, the loose, lightly twisted silk fibre used in embroidery thread and as soft padding.
- What letters can be added to FLOX?
- No single letter can be added to FLOX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of FLOX:
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