NOXAL is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. NOXAL 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept NOXAL?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOXAL is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOXAL
No single letter turns NOXAL into another word.
How NOXAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NOXAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does NOXAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
legalhistorical
Relating to liability for harm done by a person or animal under one's control.
Noxal comes from Roman law, where a master could be sued for damage caused by a slave or an animal he owned, and could hand the wrongdoer over instead of paying compensation. Legal historians still use noxal when describing that older system of shifting the loss onto whoever caused it directly.
How NOXAL is used
Found mainly in legal history writing, in phrases such as noxal action.
- The noxal action let an owner surrender the animal instead of paying.
- Roman noxal liability treated the slave as the source of the wrong.
- Historians describe noxal surrender as a compromise between owner and victim.
- The lecture traced noxal rules from early Rome into later codes.
- A noxal claim followed the ox that gored a passer-by.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOXAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NOXAL
Common questions about NOXAL
- Is NOXAL valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and NOXAL is not in it.
- How many points is NOXAL worth?
- NOXAL is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOXAL mean?
- Relating to liability for harm done by a person or animal under one's control.
- What letters can be added to NOXAL?
- No single letter can be added to NOXAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NOXAL:
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