MUREX is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. MUREX is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MUREX?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MUREX is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MUREX
No single letter turns MUREX into another word.
How MUREX scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MUREX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does MUREX mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A spiny marine sea snail once used as a source of purple dye.
The murex is a predatory sea snail whose shell is covered in sharp spines and whose narrow canal extends from the shell's opening. Ancient Mediterranean dyers crushed large numbers of these snails to extract a fluid that turned a prized purple colour used for royal and priestly cloth. The genus name murex is still used today in zoology to classify this and related shellfish.
How MUREX is used
A technical zoological term, met mainly in accounts of marine life or the ancient dye trade.
- Divers gathered murex shells along the rocky coast.
- The ancient dye came from crushing thousands of murex snails.
- A murex shell sat among the others on her windowsill.
- The museum case held a fossilised murex from the region.
- Fishermen occasionally hauled up a murex in their nets.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MUREX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MUREX
1 longer words begin with MUREX.
Shorter words from the letters in MUREX
Common questions about MUREX
- Is MUREX valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MUREX, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MUREX worth?
- MUREX is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MUREX mean?
- A spiny marine sea snail once used as a source of purple dye.
- What letters can be added to MUREX?
- No single letter can be added to MUREX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MUREX:
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