ANKER is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. ANKER 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 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ANKER?
| 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: 58 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANKER is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 11 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANKER
Front hooks — 10
bankerBack hooks — 1
ankersChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ANKER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ANKER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What stands out about ANKER
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ANKER mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicaltechnical
An old European unit of liquid measure, roughly ten gallons, once used mainly for wine and spirits.
The anker took its size from the small cask used to carry it, and merchants across the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia relied on it before metric measures took over. Smugglers running spirits into England favoured the size because a single anker was still small enough for one man to carry. The word came into English from Dutch, where it named the same cask.
How ANKER is used
Historical unit of capacity; encountered mainly in older trade records and accounts of smuggling.
- A single anker of brandy was easy for one man to shoulder.
- The merchant recorded the sale as forty ankers of Rhenish wine.
- Smugglers hid an anker of spirits beneath the floorboards.
- The old ledger priced the cargo by the anker rather than the gallon.
- An anker held roughly ten of the old wine gallons.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANKER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ANKER
The 5 tiles of ANKER in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with ANKER
3 longer words begin with ANKER.
Words ending in ANKER
23 words end in ANKER. Useful as a back hook: play ANKER onto a word already on the board.
Words with ANKER inside
Showing 24 of 49 words that contain ANKER somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ANKER are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ANKER
Showing 40 of 41. See all in the Word Finder
Common questions about ANKER
- Is ANKER valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ANKER is not in it.
- How many points is ANKER worth?
- ANKER is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANKER mean?
- An old European unit of liquid measure, roughly ten gallons, once used mainly for wine and spirits.
- What letters can be added to ANKER?
- ANKER takes 11 hooks: 10 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ANKER:
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