GLEEK is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. GLEEK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GLEEK?
| 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 GLEEK is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GLEEK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
gleeksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GLEEK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GLEEK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 95,060.
What does GLEEK mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaichistorical
An old English card game for three players, popular from roughly the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, built around bidding and matched sets of cards.
Gleek pitted three players against each other for a shared pool of stakes, with hands scored partly on holding three or four of a kind, a feature that gave the game its name for a matched trio of cards as well. The same word once worked as a verb meaning to jest or make a sly joke, a sense Shakespeare used, though only the card-game noun is still found in dictionaries with any regularity today.
How GLEEK is used
Historical, encountered mainly in accounts of Tudor and Stuart-era card games rather than in modern play.
- Courtiers played gleek for money in the evenings at court.
- Historians describe gleek as a forerunner of later three-handed card games.
- The old manual explained the rules of gleek in careful detail.
- A winning hand of gleek depended on holding matched sets of cards.
- Few modern players have ever heard of gleek, let alone played it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GLEEK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GLEEK
3 longer words begin with GLEEK.
Shorter words from the letters in GLEEK
Common questions about GLEEK
- Is GLEEK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GLEEK, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GLEEK worth?
- GLEEK is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GLEEK mean?
- An old English card game for three players, popular from roughly the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, built around bidding and matched sets of cards.
- What letters can be added to GLEEK?
- GLEEK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GLEEK:
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