MUX is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. MUX is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MUX?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MUX is to know. It scores 12 from 3 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 2.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MUX
No single letter turns MUX into another word.
How MUX scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in MUX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,213.
What does MUX mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To combine several signals so that they travel on one channel.
Mux is engineers' shorthand for multiplex, and it works as verb and noun at once: the box is a mux and what the box does is mux. The whole point is scarcity — one cable, one frequency, one fibre carrying what would otherwise need a great many.
How MUX is used
Transitive: mux the streams. The opposite operation is demux.
- The card will mux four inputs onto one line.
- A mux that far from the exchange serves two villages.
- They mux the audio with the video before it leaves the studio.
- Whatever you mux you have to demux at the other end.
- The mux failed and every channel went at once.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MUX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MUX
3 longer words begin with MUX.
Shorter words from the letters in MUX
Common questions about MUX
- Is MUX valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MUX, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MUX worth?
- MUX is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MUX mean?
- To combine several signals so that they travel on one channel.
- What letters can be added to MUX?
- No single letter can be added to MUX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of MUX:
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