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mackerel

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Is mackerel a Scrabble word?

Yes, mackerel is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 16 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of mackerel?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (chiefly attributive, of clouds, the sky, etc) A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them.Examples: "a mackerel sky"; "MACKEREL CLOUDS.- Mackerel scales and mares' tails / Make lofty ships carry low sails."; "Mackerel clouds in sky, Expect more wet than dry. A mackerel sky, Not twenty-four hours dry."attributivecountableuncountable

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) A pimp; also, a bawd.Examples: "1483, William Caxton, Magnus Cato, quoted in James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, vol. 2, publ. by John Russell Smith (1847), page 536. […] nyghe his hows dwellyd a maquerel or bawde […]"; "NETTING MACKEREL: THE PIMP DETAIL"; "Hundreds of ‘night birds’ and their ‘mackerels’ and other vice-pushers were sent packing."obsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "mackerel"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "mackerel"?

Scrabble
16 points
M3
A1
C3
K5
E1
R1
E1
L1
Words With Friends
19 points
M4
A1
C4
K5
E1
R1
E1
L2

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