CHOKY is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. CHOKY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHOKY?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHOKY is to know. It scores 17 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHOKY
No single letter turns CHOKY into another word.
How CHOKY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHOKY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,176 thousand.
What does CHOKY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian Englishslangarchaic
A prison, especially in old British slang influenced by Hindi.
Choky, also spelled chokey, came into English slang from Hindi and was once common British slang for jail or a lock-up. A separate, related sense describes something tight enough to choke or a feeling of breathlessness, but the prison meaning is the one usually meant by choky on its own.
How CHOKY is used
Now archaic; found mainly in older British fiction and slang dictionaries.
- The pickpocket spent a week in choky for his trouble.
- Old novels often send minor criminals to choky rather than to prison.
- He joked that another offence would land him back in choky.
- The guard led the drunk sailor off to choky for the night.
- In slang of the period, choky simply meant jail.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHOKY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CHOKY
Common questions about CHOKY
- Is CHOKY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHOKY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHOKY worth?
- CHOKY is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHOKY mean?
- A prison, especially in old British slang influenced by Hindi.
- What letters can be added to CHOKY?
- No single letter can be added to CHOKY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHOKY:
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