MAGGOT is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. MAGGOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAGGOT?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAGGOT is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAGGOT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MAGGOT scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in MAGGOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 459,897.
What does MAGGOT mean in Scrabble?
noun
The soft, legless, worm-like young stage of a fly, found in rotting food or flesh.
Maggots hatch from eggs laid by flies and feed on decaying matter, which is why they are linked with spoiled meat and rubbish bins. Anglers use them as bait, and doctors have even used sterile ones to clean dead tissue out of stubborn wounds. In older English the word could also mean a whim or odd fancy, a sense that lives on in the saying about a maggot in the brain.
How MAGGOT is used
Everyday word; the sense of a whim is old and now very rare.
- The bin smelled bad and was crawling with a maggot or two.
- He kept a tub of live maggot bait in the shed for fishing.
- A single maggot in the fruit made her put down the fork.
- The wound was cleaned by a medical maggot placed on the tissue.
- Each maggot grows quickly before turning into a pupa.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAGGOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MAGGOT
6 longer words begin with MAGGOT.
Shorter words from the letters in MAGGOT
Common questions about MAGGOT
- Is MAGGOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAGGOT, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAGGOT worth?
- MAGGOT is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAGGOT mean?
- The soft, legless, worm-like young stage of a fly, found in rotting food or flesh.
- What letters can be added to MAGGOT?
- MAGGOT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of MAGGOT:
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