COCK is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. COCK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COCK?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COCK is to know. It scores 12 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 3.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COCK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COCK scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in COCK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 490,153.
What does COCK mean in Scrabble?
noun
An adult male chicken.
Cock is avoided in American English, where rooster replaced it in polite use during the nineteenth century for reasons everybody understands. The word survives everywhere inside compounds like weathercock and cockerel.
How COCK is used
Countable. Rooster is preferred in American English.
- A cock crows at any hour and not only at dawn.
- The word cock was replaced by rooster in American use.
- The word cock survives whole inside weathercock.
- They cocked the hammer and waited.
- A vulgar sense of cock is why rooster won in America.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COCK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COCK
Showing 24 of 157 words that begin with COCK.
Words ending in COCK
Showing 24 of 34 words that end in COCK. Useful as a back hook: play COCK onto a word already on the board.
Words with COCK inside
Showing 24 of 59 words that contain COCK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with COCK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in COCK
Common questions about COCK
- Is COCK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COCK, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COCK worth?
- COCK is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COCK mean?
- An adult male chicken.
- What letters can be added to COCK?
- COCK takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of COCK:
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