DUKES is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. DUKES is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DUKES?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DUKES is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DUKES
No single letter turns DUKES into another word.
How DUKES scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DUKES, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does DUKES mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A person's fists, especially when raised for a fistfight.
Dukes is old slang for the fists, best known from the phrase put up your dukes, an invitation to fight with bare hands. The word most likely comes from rhyming slang, Duke of Yorks standing for forks, an old slang term for fingers, which then shortened to dukes on its own. This sense has nothing to do with the noble title duke, even though the spelling is identical and the plural looks like an ordinary plural of duke. The phrase and the word both sound old-fashioned today and turn up mostly in films and comic writing about fistfights.
How DUKES is used
Informal and slightly dated; almost always in the phrase put up your dukes.
- He raised his dukes and waited for the other man to swing.
- Put up your dukes was the whole of his challenge.
- The word dukes for fists comes from old rhyming slang.
- Nobody actually said put up your dukes outside old films.
- She laughed and told him to put his dukes down.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DUKES and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DUKES
2 longer words begin with DUKES.
Words ending in DUKES
1 words end in DUKES. Useful as a back hook: play DUKES onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in DUKES
Common questions about DUKES
- Is DUKES valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DUKES, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DUKES worth?
- DUKES is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DUKES mean?
- A person's fists, especially when raised for a fistfight.
- What letters can be added to DUKES?
- No single letter can be added to DUKES to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DUKES:
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