MAFIA is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. MAFIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAFIA?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAFIA is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAFIA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
mafiasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MAFIA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MAFIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does MAFIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
An organised criminal network, especially one of Sicilian origin.
The word came out of nineteenth-century Sicily and spread twice: first with emigration to the United States, then with the films, which fixed a version of it in the general mind. In loose modern use it means any closed group that looks after its own — a golf club mafia, a departmental mafia — and there the tone is half joking.
How MAFIA is used
Capitalised for the specific organisation, lower case for the general sense. Takes a singular or plural verb depending on whether it is treated as a body or as its members.
- The trial ran for two years and touched half the mafia in the province.
- He wrote three books about the mafia and never once met one.
- A small mafia of senior staff decided everything before the meeting.
- The village had its own mafia, and it was mostly about parking.
- Witnesses against the mafia were moved and given new names.
- The film made the mafia look like a family business with worse hours.
- Journalists who wrote about the mafia in those years did not last long.
- What began as a mafia of landowners ended as an export industry.
- She called them the coffee mafia, and nobody argued.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAFIA and 9 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MAFIA
1 longer words begin with MAFIA.
Shorter words from the letters in MAFIA
Common questions about MAFIA
- Is MAFIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAFIA, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAFIA worth?
- MAFIA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAFIA mean?
- An organised criminal network, especially one of Sicilian origin.
- What letters can be added to MAFIA?
- MAFIA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MAFIA:
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