HOKINESS is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. HOKINESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOKINESS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOKINESS is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOKINESS
No single letter turns HOKINESS into another word.
How HOKINESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in HOKINESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HOKINESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does HOKINESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
The quality of being corny, overly sentimental or artificial.
Hokiness is what critics sense in a film with a forced happy ending or a greeting card with a rhyming verse. It is the noun for the adjective hokey and often carries a note of mild mockery.
How HOKINESS is used
Informal; used in reviews and casual talk about cheesy or contrived things.
- The hokiness of the plot made the audience groan.
- He admitted the hokiness of the costume but wore it anyway.
- A little hokiness is part of the charm of old musicals.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOKINESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOKINESS
1 longer words begin with HOKINESS.
Shorter words from the letters in HOKINESS
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Common questions about HOKINESS
- Is HOKINESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOKINESS, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOKINESS worth?
- HOKINESS is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOKINESS mean?
- The quality of being corny, overly sentimental or artificial.
- What letters can be added to HOKINESS?
- No single letter can be added to HOKINESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of HOKINESS:
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