MAGUS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. MAGUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAGUS?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAGUS is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAGUS
No single letter turns MAGUS into another word.
How MAGUS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MAGUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What stands out about MAGUS
- The same 5 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 MAGUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
literaryhistorical
A magician or sorcerer, especially a member of the ancient Persian priestly class credited with occult knowledge and astrology; also, one of the biblical wise men who visited the infant Jesus.
Ancient Greek and Roman writers used magus to describe priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia, a caste renowned for astrology, astronomy and what outsiders regarded as magical knowledge, and the English words magic and magician both descend from this same root. The New Testament borrows the term for the magi, the wise men from the East who followed a star to find the infant Jesus, giving magus a lasting place in Christian tradition and art. Writers later broadened the word to describe any learned sorcerer or occult practitioner, a sense that survives in literary and fantasy fiction describing a powerful wizard figure. Because of its ancient and religious associations, magus carries a more scholarly, ceremonial tone than everyday words like wizard or magician.
How MAGUS is used
A literary and historical term for an ancient Persian priest-astrologer, a biblical wise man, or, more broadly, a learned sorcerer in fiction.
- The nativity play cast three boys as the visiting magus and his companions.
- Ancient sources describe the magus as skilled in astrology and ritual.
- The novel's aging magus taught the young apprentice forbidden spells.
- Historians debate how much real astronomy the magus class actually knew.
- A robed magus appeared in the tapestry beside the infant king.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAGUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MAGUS
The 5 tiles of MAGUS in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in MAGUS
Common questions about MAGUS
- Is MAGUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAGUS, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAGUS worth?
- MAGUS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAGUS mean?
- A magician or sorcerer, especially a member of the ancient Persian priestly class credited with occult knowledge and astrology; also, one of the biblical wise men who visited the infant Jesus.
- What letters can be added to MAGUS?
- No single letter can be added to MAGUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MAGUS:
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