ABASK is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. ABASK 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ABASK?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABASK is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABASK
No single letter turns ABASK into another word.
How ABASK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ABASK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does ABASK mean in Scrabble?
adverb
archaicliterary
In or into a basking position, lying so as to be warmed by sunlight or by a fire.
Abask belongs to a small family of English words built with the old prefix a- attached to a verb, alongside asleep and afloat. A cat abask on a windowsill is stretched out to catch as much warmth as possible, and the word usually follows lie or stretch rather than standing alone as a plain adjective.
How ABASK is used
Rare outside older fiction and deliberately old-fashioned or poetic writing.
- The old hound lay abask on the warm stone step.
- She found the lizard abask on a sunlit rock.
- Abask before the fire, he forgot the cold outside.
- The cat stretched abask on the windowsill all afternoon.
- Abask in the noon sun, the seals barely moved.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABASK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words with ABASK inside
2 words contain ABASK in the middle. Words that start with ABASK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ABASK
Common questions about ABASK
- Is ABASK valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ABASK is not in it.
- How many points is ABASK worth?
- ABASK is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABASK mean?
- In or into a basking position, lying so as to be warmed by sunlight or by a fire.
- What letters can be added to ABASK?
- No single letter can be added to ABASK to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ABASK:
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