MILTZ is valid in Collins, not in North America — 16 points
It depends on the list you play by. MILTZ 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 16 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept MILTZ?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MILTZ is to know. It scores 16 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MILTZ
No single letter turns MILTZ into another word.
How MILTZ scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MILTZ, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does MILTZ mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialect
The spleen, especially as an organ prepared and eaten in traditional Jewish cooking.
Miltz is a Yiddish-derived word for the spleen that entered English cookery vocabulary through Jewish culinary tradition, where the organ was sometimes stuffed and roasted as a dish. It functions as a direct equivalent of the older English word milt, which likewise names the spleen or, in fish, the soft roe. Outside specialist food writing and older recipe collections the word is rarely used today.
How MILTZ is used
A specialized culinary term, rarely encountered outside older Jewish cookbooks.
- The old cookbook included a recipe for stuffed miltz.
- Her grandmother still remembered how to prepare miltz.
- Miltz appeared alongside other offal dishes on the menu.
- Few modern butchers are asked to prepare miltz anymore.
- The recipe called for a whole miltz, stuffed and baked slowly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MILTZ and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MILTZ
1 longer words begin with MILTZ.
Shorter words from the letters in MILTZ
Common questions about MILTZ
- Is MILTZ valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MILTZ is not in it.
- How many points is MILTZ worth?
- MILTZ is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MILTZ mean?
- The spleen, especially as an organ prepared and eaten in traditional Jewish cooking.
- What letters can be added to MILTZ?
- No single letter can be added to MILTZ to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MILTZ:
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