CHANK is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. CHANK 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CHANK?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHANK is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHANK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
chanksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHANK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHANK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What does CHANK mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian English
The large spiral shell of a marine conch, especially Turbinella pyrum, valued in South Asia for making bangles.
A chank is the heavy, spiral-shaped shell of a large sea snail found in the waters around India and Sri Lanka. Craftsmen cut the shell into rings to make bangles, and a chank with a rare left-handed spiral is prized as an unusually valuable find. The word entered English from Tamil and Hindi through trade in these shells.
How CHANK is used
Used mainly in descriptions of South Asian shell craft and conch fishing, rare outside that context.
- Divers along the coast still bring up chank shells for the bangle trade.
- A single reversed chank can fetch a high price from collectors.
- The workshop cut the chank into thin white rings.
- Traders once shipped chank by the boatload from the southern coast.
- She wore bangles carved from a large chank shell.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHANK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHANK
1 longer words begin with CHANK.
Shorter words from the letters in CHANK
Common questions about CHANK
- Is CHANK valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CHANK is not in it.
- How many points is CHANK worth?
- CHANK is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHANK mean?
- The large spiral shell of a marine conch, especially Turbinella pyrum, valued in South Asia for making bangles.
- What letters can be added to CHANK?
- CHANK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHANK:
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