What JINX Means
- noun: a person believed to bring bad luck to those around them
- noun: an evil spell“a witch put a curse on his whole family”
- verb: cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
- verb: foredoom to failure“This project is jinxed!”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
JINX is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 I1 N1 X8.
Words Made From The Letters In JINX
4 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (2)
2 letter words (2)
Longer Words Containing JINX
JINX appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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