LINUX is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. LINUX 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept LINUX?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LINUX is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LINUX
No single letter turns LINUX into another word.
How LINUX scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LINUX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does LINUX mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A free operating system kernel, and the systems built around it.
Linux started as a student project in 1991 and now sits under most of the servers on the internet, nearly every telephone not made by one particular company, and every machine on the current supercomputer list. Almost nobody chooses it as such: it arrives underneath something else, which is why the name is far less known than the software.
How LINUX is used
Uncountable and attributive — a Linux machine, running Linux. Normally capitalised.
- The whole rack runs Linux and always has.
- He installed Linux on a laptop nobody else wanted.
- Linux is underneath far more devices than people realise.
- The bug was fixed in Linux before anyone reported it.
- She has used Linux for twenty years and never paid for it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LINUX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LINUX
1 longer words begin with LINUX.
Shorter words from the letters in LINUX
Common questions about LINUX
- Is LINUX valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LINUX is not in it.
- How many points is LINUX worth?
- LINUX is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LINUX mean?
- A free operating system kernel, and the systems built around it.
- What letters can be added to LINUX?
- No single letter can be added to LINUX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LINUX:
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