MORTIFY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. MORTIFY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MORTIFY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MORTIFY is to know. It scores 15 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MORTIFY
No single letter turns MORTIFY into another word.
How MORTIFY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in MORTIFY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 771,970.
What does MORTIFY mean in Scrabble?
verb
To cause someone to feel deeply embarrassed or ashamed.
Parents can mortify teenagers simply by turning up in public. In older religious writing the verb meant to discipline the body, and in medicine it describes flesh dying from gangrene.
How MORTIFY is used
Mortify is most often used in the passive, as in "I was mortified".
- His clumsy joke was enough to mortify the whole family.
- Nothing could mortify her more than a phone ringing in the theatre.
- Monks once practised fasting to mortify the flesh.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MORTIFY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MORTIFY
3 longer words begin with MORTIFY.
Shorter words from the letters in MORTIFY
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Common questions about MORTIFY
- Is MORTIFY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MORTIFY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MORTIFY worth?
- MORTIFY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MORTIFY mean?
- To cause someone to feel deeply embarrassed or ashamed.
- What letters can be added to MORTIFY?
- No single letter can be added to MORTIFY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of MORTIFY:
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