MACARONI is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. MACARONI is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MACARONI?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MACARONI is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MACARONI
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MACARONI scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in MACARONI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MACARONI has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about MACARONI
- The same 8 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does MACARONI mean in Scrabble?
noun
Pasta made in short, curved tubes.
Macaroni is the basis of macaroni cheese and many baked dishes. In eighteenth-century Britain the word also named a fashionable dandy who copied continental styles.
How MACARONI is used
Macaroni is a mass noun for the pasta, and a historical term for a dandy.
- She boiled the macaroni for ten minutes.
- Baked macaroni and cheese is a comfort dish.
- Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni.
- The macaroni of 1770 wore towering wigs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MACARONI and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MACARONI
The 8 tiles of MACARONI in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with MACARONI
5 longer words begin with MACARONI.
Shorter words from the letters in MACARONI
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Common questions about MACARONI
- Is MACARONI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MACARONI, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MACARONI worth?
- MACARONI is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MACARONI mean?
- Pasta made in short, curved tubes.
- What letters can be added to MACARONI?
- MACARONI takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of MACARONI:
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