MAWKY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 17 points
It depends on the list you play by. MAWKY 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 17 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept MAWKY?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAWKY is to know. It scores 17 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAWKY
No single letter turns MAWKY into another word.
How MAWKY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MAWKY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What does MAWKY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialectBritish
Infested with maggots, or, of a person, squeamish and easily made to feel queasy, especially about food.
Mawky survives in northern English dialect from an old word for maggot. Meat or fruit gone mawky is crawling with maggots, while a mawky eater is someone whose stomach turns easily at the sight of such things.
How MAWKY is used
Regional dialect, chiefly Yorkshire and Lincolnshire; rare outside dialect literature and glossaries.
- The butcher threw out the mawky meat at once.
- She felt mawky at the smell coming from the bin.
- Old farmhands called any maggot-ridden carcass mawky.
- He was too mawky to finish the plate of tripe.
- The apples left in the barn had gone mawky.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAWKY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in MAWKY
Common questions about MAWKY
- Is MAWKY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MAWKY is not in it.
- How many points is MAWKY worth?
- MAWKY is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAWKY mean?
- Infested with maggots, or, of a person, squeamish and easily made to feel queasy, especially about food.
- What letters can be added to MAWKY?
- No single letter can be added to MAWKY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MAWKY:
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