MELS is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. MELS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MELS?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MELS is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MELS
No single letter turns MELS into another word.
How MELS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in MELS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,212.
What does MELS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
Units used to measure the subjective pitch that a listener perceives in a sound, in the plural.
Engineers who study hearing and speech define the mel scale around how pitch is perceived rather than how it is measured in hertz. A tone perceived as ten times higher in pitch than another corresponds to ten times as many mels. The reference tone of 1000 hertz is fixed at exactly 1000 mels.
How MELS is used
A specialist term from acoustics and speech processing, not used outside technical writing.
- The recording engineer plotted the sound's pitch in mels rather than hertz.
- A tone perceived as twice as high corresponds to roughly twice as many mels.
- The chart converted each frequency into mels to match human hearing.
- Speech software often analyses pitch in mels for more natural results.
- Researchers compared the two voices using a scale measured in mels.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MELS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MELS
The 4 tiles of MELS in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in MELS
Showing 24 of 38 words that end in MELS. Useful as a back hook: play MELS onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in MELS
Common questions about MELS
- Is MELS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MELS, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MELS worth?
- MELS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MELS mean?
- Units used to measure the subjective pitch that a listener perceives in a sound, in the plural.
- What letters can be added to MELS?
- No single letter can be added to MELS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of MELS:
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