DIRKE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. DIRKE 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DIRKE?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DIRKE is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DIRKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DIRKE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DIRKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about DIRKE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DIRKE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To darken; make dark or grow dim.
Dirke is a spelling Edmund Spenser used in The Faerie Queene for the ordinary verb darken, at a time when English spelling had not yet settled into one standard form. The word never became common outside his poetry and dropped out of use once modern spelling fixed on darken instead. It is unrelated to the far commoner dirk, a short dagger worn with Highland dress, even though the two spellings happen to look alike. Dictionaries record dirke mainly as a curiosity from sixteenth-century verse rather than as a word anyone still writes.
How DIRKE is used
Archaic; found only in older poetic texts, chiefly the work of Edmund Spenser, and never in modern writing.
- The old text has the sky dirke toward evening.
- Spenser wrote dirke where a modern poet would write darken.
- A reader meets dirke only in editions that keep the original spelling.
- The verb dirke describes clouds dimming the light, not a weapon.
- Glossaries mark dirke as obsolete and point readers to darken.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DIRKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DIRKE
The 5 tiles of DIRKE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with DIRKE
2 longer words begin with DIRKE.
Shorter words from the letters in DIRKE
Common questions about DIRKE
- Is DIRKE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DIRKE is not in it.
- How many points is DIRKE worth?
- DIRKE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DIRKE mean?
- To darken; make dark or grow dim.
- What letters can be added to DIRKE?
- DIRKE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DIRKE:
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