CLECK is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. CLECK 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CLECK?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLECK is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLECK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CLECK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CLECK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,568 thousand.
What does CLECK mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scots
To hatch, especially of eggs or young birds, in Scots use.
Cleck describes the moment a chick breaks out of its egg, and older Scots speech extended the same word sideways to mean chattering or spreading gossip, as if talk itself were something hatched and let loose. Farm and country writing keeps the hatching sense of cleck alive, while the gossip sense survives mostly in older Scots dictionaries and literary use. Both senses share the idea of something suddenly out in the open.
How CLECK is used
Scots, mainly in rural and older written use rather than everyday city speech.
- The hen watched over the eggs until they clecked.
- Two chicks clecked overnight in the barn.
- The gossip clecked round the village within a day.
- Not every egg in the clutch clecked this spring.
- She waited by the nest for the last egg to cleck.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLECK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CLECK
7 longer words begin with CLECK.
Shorter words from the letters in CLECK
Common questions about CLECK
- Is CLECK valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CLECK is not in it.
- How many points is CLECK worth?
- CLECK is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLECK mean?
- To hatch, especially of eggs or young birds, in Scots use.
- What letters can be added to CLECK?
- CLECK takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CLECK:
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