ACKEE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ACKEE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ACKEE?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ACKEE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ACKEE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ACKEE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ACKEE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 63,373.
What does ACKEE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Caribbean
A tropical tree, and its fruit, widely cooked as a savory dish in Jamaica; the fruit is poisonous unless fully ripe.
Ackee grows on a tree originally native to West Africa that was later introduced to the Caribbean, where it became central to Jamaican cooking. The fruit splits open naturally when ripe, revealing yellow flesh that cooks saute much like scrambled eggs, most famously in the national dish ackee and saltfish. Unripe or overripe ackee contains a toxin that causes severe illness, so cooks wait until the pods open on their own before using the fruit. Jamaican markets sell fresh and canned ackee, and the plant now grows across several other Caribbean islands as well.
How ACKEE is used
Countable noun naming both the tree and its fruit; central to Jamaican cuisine and almost always paired with saltfish in recipes.
- She cooked ackee and saltfish for Sunday breakfast.
- The ackee tree in the yard dropped ripe fruit each summer.
- Vendors at the market sold both fresh and canned ackee.
- He warned that unripe ackee can make a person seriously ill.
- Jamaican grandmothers taught their children to wait for the ackee pods to open.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ACKEE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ACKEE
1 longer words begin with ACKEE.
Words ending in ACKEE
1 words end in ACKEE. Useful as a back hook: play ACKEE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ACKEE inside
3 words contain ACKEE in the middle. Words that start with ACKEE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ACKEE
Common questions about ACKEE
- Is ACKEE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ACKEE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ACKEE worth?
- ACKEE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ACKEE mean?
- A tropical tree, and its fruit, widely cooked as a savory dish in Jamaica; the fruit is poisonous unless fully ripe.
- What letters can be added to ACKEE?
- ACKEE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ACKEE:
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