EMBANK is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. EMBANK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EMBANK?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EMBANK is to know. It scores 14 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EMBANK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
embanksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EMBANK scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in EMBANK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 459,897.
What does EMBANK mean in Scrabble?
verb
To enclose, support or protect something with a raised bank of earth or stone.
Engineers embank a river to keep its water from spilling over onto the land, and they embank a road or railway when it has to be carried over low or marshy ground. The work is done by piling up earth or stone into a long raised mound. The finished structure is called an embankment, which is the much commoner word today.
How EMBANK is used
Technical and somewhat old-fashioned; the noun embankment is used far more often than the verb.
- The villagers worked to embank the stream before the spring floods.
- They had to embank the land on both sides of the new railway.
- Dutch engineers learned early how to embank low coastal fields.
- The council plans to embank the canal where the bank keeps crumbling.
- It cost a fortune to embank the road across the marsh.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EMBANK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with EMBANK
7 longer words begin with EMBANK.
Shorter words from the letters in EMBANK
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Common questions about EMBANK
- Is EMBANK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EMBANK, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EMBANK worth?
- EMBANK is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EMBANK mean?
- To enclose, support or protect something with a raised bank of earth or stone.
- What letters can be added to EMBANK?
- EMBANK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of EMBANK:
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