ALKIE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. ALKIE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALKIE?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALKIE is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALKIE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALKIE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ALKIE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does ALKIE mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
An alcoholic; a person who drinks alcohol heavily and habitually.
Alkie is a shortened, informal form of alcoholic that people use in casual speech, often with a dismissive or joking edge. Someone might call a heavy-drinking neighbor an alkie rather than using the more clinical term alcoholic. Because the word can sound blunt, speakers tend to avoid it in formal or sympathetic contexts.
How ALKIE is used
Informal and sometimes disparaging; used mainly in casual conversation rather than in clinical or polite writing.
- His uncle was known around town as the local alkie.
- She worried her father was turning into an alkie.
- The film portrayed the character as a washed-up alkie.
- Nobody wanted to hire the old alkie who hung around the bar.
- He joked that college turned half his friends into alkies.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALKIE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ALKIE
The 5 tiles of ALKIE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ALKIE
1 longer words begin with ALKIE.
Words ending in ALKIE
1 words end in ALKIE. Useful as a back hook: play ALKIE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ALKIE inside
10 words contain ALKIE in the middle. Words that start with ALKIE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ALKIE
Common questions about ALKIE
- Is ALKIE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALKIE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALKIE worth?
- ALKIE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALKIE mean?
- An alcoholic; a person who drinks alcohol heavily and habitually.
- What letters can be added to ALKIE?
- ALKIE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ALKIE:
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