Definitions for makos

makos ma·ko

Spelling: [mey-koh, mah-]
IPA: /ˈmeɪ koʊ, ˈmɑ-/

Makos is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in makos (akmos).

Definitions for makos

noun

  1. a powerful mackerel shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Origin of makos

Borrowed into English from Maori around 1720-30

Examples for makos

Anna saw the mako at the same moment, and made a great splashing.

“I belong to at least 20 groups,” said Amit Slonim, an editor and writer at mako.

Scientists estimate these sharks, the ancestors of the modern day mako shark, could grow larger than 50 feet long.

I could see the mako turn in the water, as he must do to take anything into his mouth.

We vanish like the small fish before the hunger of the mako.

The latter variety was originally known by a different name, mako Jumel.

Word Value for makos
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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