BRANK is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. BRANK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BRANK?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BRANK is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BRANK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BRANK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BRANK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does BRANK mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scotsdialect
To toss up the head and prance, said especially of a horse.
Brank describes the way a spirited horse jerks its head upward and struts or capers, often when it resists the bit or shows off in front of a crowd. The word is chiefly Scots and turns up in older descriptions of horses that will not settle quietly under the rein. By extension, older writers also used brank for a person who walked with a similarly showy, swaggering gait, carrying the same restless energy over from the stable to the street. A separate, unrelated word spelled the same way once named a device used to restrain a scolding tongue, though that sense is rarer today.
How BRANK is used
A Scots dialect word, met mainly in older or regional writing about horses rather than in everyday modern speech.
- The colt would brank and toss its head at every loud noise.
- Farmers said the young mare tended to brank when strangers approached.
- He watched the stallion brank proudly across the field.
- Old ballads describe a knight's horse that would brank and rear.
- The pony seemed to brank whenever the crowd cheered.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BRANK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BRANK
8 longer words begin with BRANK.
Shorter words from the letters in BRANK
Common questions about BRANK
- Is BRANK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BRANK, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BRANK worth?
- BRANK is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BRANK mean?
- To toss up the head and prance, said especially of a horse.
- What letters can be added to BRANK?
- BRANK takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BRANK:
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