AWK is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. AWK 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AWK?
| 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: 64 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AWK is to know. It scores 10 from 3 tiles, takes 9 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AWK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AWK scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in AWK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 8,983.
What does AWK mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicdialect
Clumsy, awkward, or acting in a wrong or backward way.
Awk is the older root word behind awkward, once used on its own to describe a clumsy movement, an unhandy person, or something turned the wrong way round, such as the back end of a tool rather than its working end. Over time English kept the longer form awkward and let the plain adjective fall out of everyday use.
How AWK is used
Found in older and dialect English rather than modern standard speech.
- He gave the rope an awk pull and it slipped from his grip.
- She always felt awk holding a fork in her left hand.
- The old tool had an awk end meant for prying, not cutting.
- His awk stance made the swing look clumsy.
- It was an awk way to carry such a heavy load.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AWK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AWK
The 3 tiles of AWK in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with AWK
8 longer words begin with AWK.
Words ending in AWK
23 words end in AWK. Useful as a back hook: play AWK onto a word already on the board.
Words with AWK inside
Showing 24 of 107 words that contain AWK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with AWK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AWK
Common questions about AWK
- Is AWK valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AWK is not in it.
- How many points is AWK worth?
- AWK is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AWK mean?
- Clumsy, awkward, or acting in a wrong or backward way.
- What letters can be added to AWK?
- AWK takes 9 hooks: 8 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of AWK:
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