HOKKU is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. HOKKU is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOKKU?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOKKU is to know. It scores 16 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOKKU
No single letter turns HOKKU into another word.
How HOKKU scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HOKKU, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| k | 2 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. HOKKU needs 1 blank tile.
What does HOKKU mean in Scrabble?
noun
literaryhistorical
The older name for haiku, a short Japanese poem of three lines built on a five-seven-five syllable pattern.
Hokku was the original term for the opening verse of a longer linked-verse poem before it developed into a standalone form. The poet Masaoka Shiki popularized the newer name haiku in the late nineteenth century, and hokku gradually fell out of everyday use. Scholars of classical Japanese poetry still use hokku when discussing verses written before that renaming.
How HOKKU is used
Mostly reserved for scholarly discussion of pre-modern Japanese poetry rather than modern verse.
- The anthology collects hokku written centuries before the word haiku existed.
- Basho is remembered today for his hokku about a frog and an old pond.
- The professor explained how hokku evolved into the modern haiku.
- Each hokku in the sequence opened a longer linked poem.
- Students studying classical Japanese poetry must first learn what a hokku is.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOKKU and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HOKKU
Common questions about HOKKU
- Is HOKKU valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOKKU, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOKKU worth?
- HOKKU is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOKKU mean?
- The older name for haiku, a short Japanese poem of three lines built on a five-seven-five syllable pattern.
- What letters can be added to HOKKU?
- No single letter can be added to HOKKU to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HOKKU:
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