MACHI is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. MACHI 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 MACHI?
| 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 MACHI 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 MACHI
No single letter turns MACHI into another word.
How MACHI scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MACHI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does MACHI mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian Englishinformal
In Indian English slang, fish and chips, especially the dish sold as a quick takeaway meal.
Machi is a piece of Hinglish shorthand built from the Hindi word for fish and applied specifically to the British-style dish of fried fish and chips as it is sold in India. Street stalls and casual eateries advertise machi chips rather than spelling out fish and chips in full, and the shortened form has become familiar enough to stand on its own in conversation. The word illustrates how English used in daily Indian speech absorbs and compresses common local phrases. Outside this specific food context, machi is not used with any other everyday meaning in English.
How MACHI is used
Informal Indian English, heard mainly around food stalls and casual restaurants that sell machi chips rather than in formal writing.
- The stall on the corner sells machi chips every evening.
- He ordered machi and a cold drink after work.
- Menus at the seaside stand simply say machi instead of fish and chips.
- She grew up calling the dish machi, the way her family always had.
- The queue for machi chips stretched around the block on Friday night.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MACHI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MACHI
Showing 24 of 45 words that begin with MACHI.
Words with MACHI inside
Showing 24 of 41 words that contain MACHI somewhere in the middle. Words that start with MACHI are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MACHI
Common questions about MACHI
- Is MACHI valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MACHI is not in it.
- How many points is MACHI worth?
- MACHI is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MACHI mean?
- In Indian English slang, fish and chips, especially the dish sold as a quick takeaway meal.
- What letters can be added to MACHI?
- No single letter can be added to MACHI to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MACHI:
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