AKA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. AKA 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 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AKA?
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AKA is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AKA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AKA scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in AKA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What stands out about AKA
- AKA is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does AKA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A climbing vine native to New Zealand, from the Maori name for the plant.
Aka is the Maori name for this plant, and New Zealand English absorbed the term directly rather than inventing an English equivalent. Early settlers and Maori weavers alike prized its tough, twisting stems for binding fence rails and light structures together. Botanical guides to New Zealand's forests still print aka rather than translating it.
How AKA is used
Used mainly in New Zealand botanical and regional contexts.
- The aka twisted tightly around the old rimu tree.
- Weavers once used the tough aka for binding material.
- A thick aka hung across the bush track.
- Botanists catalogued several types of aka in the reserve.
- The guide pointed out an aka climbing the fern trunk.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AKA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AKA
9 longer words begin with AKA.
Words ending in AKA
20 words end in AKA. Useful as a back hook: play AKA onto a word already on the board.
Words with AKA inside
Showing 24 of 125 words that contain AKA somewhere in the middle. Words that start with AKA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AKA
Common questions about AKA
- Is AKA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AKA is not in it.
- How many points is AKA worth?
- AKA is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AKA mean?
- A climbing vine native to New Zealand, from the Maori name for the plant.
- What letters can be added to AKA?
- AKA takes 5 hooks: 4 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of AKA:
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