ARK is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ARK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARK?
| 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: 59 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARK is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 15 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARK
Front hooks — 14
barkBack hooks — 1
arksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARK scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ARK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,994.
What does ARK mean in Scrabble?
noun
A large boat, especially the one in the flood story.
Ark meant a chest before it meant a vessel, and both senses are in the Bible: the one that carried the animals and the box that carried the tablets. The older sense survives in dialect for a corn bin, and in the phrase about something coming out of the ark.
How ARK is used
Countable: an ark, two arks.
- That coat looks as though it came out of the ark.
- The ark in the story has exact measurements and no rudder.
- A grain ark stood at the end of the barn.
- The word ark meant a chest for centuries first.
- Two arks appear in the same book and mean different things.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ARK
8 longer words begin with ARK.
Words ending in ARK
Showing 24 of 113 words that end in ARK. Useful as a back hook: play ARK onto a word already on the board.
Words with ARK inside
Showing 24 of 584 words that contain ARK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ARK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ARK
Common questions about ARK
- Is ARK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARK, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARK worth?
- ARK is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARK mean?
- A large boat, especially the one in the flood story.
- What letters can be added to ARK?
- ARK takes 15 hooks: 14 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ARK:
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