ALACK is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ALACK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALACK?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALACK 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 ALACK
No single letter turns ALACK into another word.
How ALACK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ALACK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does ALACK mean in Scrabble?
interjection
archaicliterary
An old interjection expressing sorrow, regret, or dismay.
Alack was once a common way to express grief or regret in English, roughly equivalent to alas. Writers now use alack mainly to give dialogue or verse an old-fashioned or theatrical flavor, often alongside similar exclamations like alas or woe. The word appears frequently in Shakespeare and other early modern writers, which is where most modern readers first meet it. Because it sounds so dated, alack today usually signals humor or deliberate archaism rather than genuine sorrow.
How ALACK is used
Archaic interjection, met almost entirely in older literature, quotation, or writing that imitates an old-fashioned style.
- Alack, the poor fool never saw it coming.
- She sighed and murmured alack at the bad news.
- The play opens with a servant crying alack over his master's fate.
- Alack, said the narrator, the letter arrived too late.
- He wrote alack in mock despair over the burnt dinner.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALACK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ALACK
1 longer words begin with ALACK.
Shorter words from the letters in ALACK
Common questions about ALACK
- Is ALACK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALACK, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALACK worth?
- ALACK is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALACK mean?
- An old interjection expressing sorrow, regret, or dismay.
- What letters can be added to ALACK?
- No single letter can be added to ALACK to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ALACK:
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