SILEX is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SILEX is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SILEX?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SILEX is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SILEX
No single letter turns SILEX into another word.
How SILEX scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SILEX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does SILEX mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A hard, fine-grained rock formed largely of silica, essentially another name for flint or hornstone.
Silex is the older, more scientific-sounding name for flint that appears in geology and in the names of flint-derived building stone. The Latin word silex simply meant flint or hard stone, and English borrowed it directly for use in mineral and rock description. The term also survives in trade names for heat-resistant glassware, since early glass of that kind was made partly from silica sand. In ordinary speech flint is far more common, and silex is mostly confined to technical or historical writing.
How SILEX is used
A technical term from geology and mineralogy, rarely used in everyday speech.
- The quarry cut blocks of silex used for old cottage walls.
- Geologists classed the nodules as silex formed within chalk beds.
- The museum label described the tool as worked silex.
- Silex gives the rock its characteristic hardness and sharp fracture.
- Early toolmakers prized silex for its ability to hold a sharp edge.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SILEX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SILEX
The 5 tiles of SILEX in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SILEX
1 longer words begin with SILEX.
Shorter words from the letters in SILEX
Common questions about SILEX
- Is SILEX valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SILEX, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SILEX worth?
- SILEX is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SILEX mean?
- A hard, fine-grained rock formed largely of silica, essentially another name for flint or hornstone.
- What letters can be added to SILEX?
- No single letter can be added to SILEX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SILEX:
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