MALAX is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. MALAX 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept MALAX?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MALAX is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MALAX
No single letter turns MALAX into another word.
How MALAX scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MALAX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does MALAX mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To soften a substance into a paste or soft mass by kneading or working it, typically by hand.
Malax describes the physical process of working a firm material, such as wax, clay or a pharmaceutical compound, until it becomes soft and workable enough to shape. Apothecaries once used the word for mixing ingredients into an ointment or paste by hand before modern machinery took over the task. The related word malaxate covers the same action and is somewhat more common in technical writing today.
How MALAX is used
A technical term, found mainly in older pharmacy and craft manuals rather than everyday speech.
- The apothecary would malax the herbs with wax to form a salve.
- Workers used to malax the clay until it lost every lump.
- The recipe instructs the maker to malax the mixture for several minutes.
- He learned to malax beeswax by hand before pouring the moulds.
- The old manual explains how to malax resin into a smooth paste.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MALAX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MALAX
13 longer words begin with MALAX.
Shorter words from the letters in MALAX
Common questions about MALAX
- Is MALAX valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MALAX is not in it.
- How many points is MALAX worth?
- MALAX is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MALAX mean?
- To soften a substance into a paste or soft mass by kneading or working it, typically by hand.
- What letters can be added to MALAX?
- No single letter can be added to MALAX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MALAX:
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