HACK is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. HACK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HACK?
| 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: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HACK is to know. It scores 13 from 4 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 3.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HACK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HACK scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in HACK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 108,923.
What does HACK mean in Scrabble?
verb
To cut something with rough heavy blows.
Hack for a writer paid by the volume comes from hackney, a horse kept for hire, by way of the idea of drudgery. The computing sense arrived in the 1960s and first meant an ingenious solution rather than a break-in.
How HACK is used
Hacked, hacking. Also a noun in several senses.
- They hacked a path through in about four hours.
- A hack in the 1960s was a clever solution.
- The word hack for a writer comes from a hired horse.
- Somebody hacked the account and changed nothing.
- Two hacks at the same root and it still held.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HACK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HACK
Showing 24 of 64 words that begin with HACK.
Words ending in HACK
12 words end in HACK. Useful as a back hook: play HACK onto a word already on the board.
Words with HACK inside
Showing 24 of 75 words that contain HACK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HACK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HACK
Common questions about HACK
- Is HACK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HACK, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HACK worth?
- HACK is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HACK mean?
- To cut something with rough heavy blows.
- What letters can be added to HACK?
- HACK takes 5 hooks: 4 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of HACK:
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