FYKE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. FYKE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FYKE?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FYKE is to know. It scores 14 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FYKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FYKE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in FYKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 81,692.
What does FYKE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A bag-shaped net for catching fish.
A fyke is set in a river or an estuary with wings that guide fish into it, and it works without any bait at all. The word came from Dutch, along with much of the vocabulary of inshore fishing.
How FYKE is used
Countable: a fyke, two fykes.
- A fyke catches without bait because the wings do the work.
- The word fyke came into English from Dutch.
- Two fykes set across the same channel.
- A fyke is emptied from the closed end.
- Inshore fishing words like fyke came from the Dutch.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FYKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FYKE
2 longer words begin with FYKE.
Shorter words from the letters in FYKE
Common questions about FYKE
- Is FYKE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FYKE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FYKE worth?
- FYKE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FYKE mean?
- A bag-shaped net for catching fish.
- What letters can be added to FYKE?
- FYKE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of FYKE:
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