DACKS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. DACKS 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DACKS?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DACKS is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DACKS
No single letter turns DACKS into another word.
How DACKS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DACKS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does DACKS mean in Scrabble?
noun
AustralianNew Zealandinformal
In Australian and New Zealand slang, dacks means trousers, used only in this plural form rather than as a single dack.
The word is common, everyday slang for the garment better known elsewhere as pants, heard constantly across Australia and New Zealand but rarely outside them. It appears most famously in the schoolyard threat to drop your dacks, and in the related prank verb meaning to pull someone's pants down, sometimes called debagging in British slang. Nobody talks about wearing one dack the way they would one sock or one shoe; the word covers both legs at once and stays in this shape no matter how many pairs are meant. Away from casual, spoken conversation in Australia and New Zealand, the word almost never appears in writing.
How DACKS is used
Informal Australian and New Zealand slang for trousers, common in casual speech rather than formal writing.
- He pulled his dacks on and rushed out the door.
- Her dacks were covered in mud after the football match.
- Mates dared him to drop his dacks into the pool.
- She hung her old dacks on the line to dry.
- The boy tripped over his own dacks running for the bus.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DACKS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DACKS
Common questions about DACKS
- Is DACKS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DACKS is not in it.
- How many points is DACKS worth?
- DACKS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DACKS mean?
- In Australian and New Zealand slang, dacks means trousers, used only in this plural form rather than as a single dack.
- What letters can be added to DACKS?
- No single letter can be added to DACKS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DACKS:
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