ATOKE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. ATOKE 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 ATOKE?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ATOKE is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ATOKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ATOKE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ATOKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does ATOKE mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologytechnical
The ordinary, non-reproductive form of certain marine worms, as opposed to the sexually mature form.
Many polychaete worms spend most of their life as an atoke, feeding and growing on the sea floor without any sign of the reproductive organs that appear only later. At breeding time some species transform into a swimming, sexually mature stage called an epitoke, sometimes leaving the atoke body behind entirely. Zoologists use the pair atoke and epitoke to describe this striking split between an animal's everyday form and its brief breeding form.
How ATOKE is used
Technical zoological term, used specifically in the study of polychaete worm reproduction.
- The worm lives for years as an atoke before it ever breeds.
- Researchers compared the atoke and its swimming, reproductive form.
- An atoke shows none of the features that mark the breeding stage.
- Most of the population studied remained in the atoke form all season.
- The transformation from atoke to epitoke happens within a single night.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ATOKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ATOKE
1 longer words begin with ATOKE.
Words ending in ATOKE
1 words end in ATOKE. Useful as a back hook: play ATOKE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ATOKE inside
1 words contain ATOKE in the middle. Words that start with ATOKE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ATOKE
Common questions about ATOKE
- Is ATOKE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ATOKE is not in it.
- How many points is ATOKE worth?
- ATOKE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ATOKE mean?
- The ordinary, non-reproductive form of certain marine worms, as opposed to the sexually mature form.
- What letters can be added to ATOKE?
- ATOKE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ATOKE:
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