MAGILP is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. MAGILP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAGILP?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAGILP is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAGILP
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
magilpsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MAGILP scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in MAGILP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 306,598.
What does MAGILP mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A jelly-like painting medium made by mixing linseed oil with mastic varnish, added to oil colours.
Painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used magilp to make oil paint more transparent and easier to glaze. It gave rich, glowing colour but tended to darken and crack with age, so later artists and restorers learned to distrust it. The same substance is spelled megilp in many books.
How MAGILP is used
Mainly historical; found in books on painting technique and conservation.
- The artist thinned his colours with magilp for a glassy finish.
- Cracks in the old canvas were blamed on too much magilp.
- Recipes for magilp varied from one studio to the next.
- A restorer found magilp beneath the darkened varnish.
- Magilp was once a favourite of landscape painters.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAGILP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MAGILP
1 longer words begin with MAGILP.
Shorter words from the letters in MAGILP
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Common questions about MAGILP
- Is MAGILP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAGILP, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAGILP worth?
- MAGILP is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAGILP mean?
- A jelly-like painting medium made by mixing linseed oil with mastic varnish, added to oil colours.
- What letters can be added to MAGILP?
- MAGILP takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of MAGILP:
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