MAMMON is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. MAMMON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAMMON?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAMMON is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAMMON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
mammonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MAMMON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in MAMMON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 3 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. MAMMON needs 1 blank tile.
What does MAMMON mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
Wealth treated as an evil influence or as a false object of worship.
The word comes from the New Testament, where mammon is set against God as a master a person cannot serve at the same time. Later writers turned it into a personification, so that mammon can stand for the greed of a whole society as well as for money itself. It is nearly always used with disapproval and sounds sermon-like in modern prose.
How MAMMON is used
Literary and moralizing; often found in the phrase "worship of mammon".
- The preacher warned that no one could serve both God and mammon.
- The novel is a bitter study of a town bowing down to mammon.
- Their quarrel was less about honour than about mammon.
- He gave up a fortune rather than bend the knee to mammon.
- Critics said the festival had been taken over by mammon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAMMON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MAMMON
9 longer words begin with MAMMON.
Shorter words from the letters in MAMMON
Common questions about MAMMON
- Is MAMMON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAMMON, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAMMON worth?
- MAMMON is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAMMON mean?
- Wealth treated as an evil influence or as a false object of worship.
- What letters can be added to MAMMON?
- MAMMON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of MAMMON:
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