HUNKS is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. HUNKS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HUNKS?
| 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 HUNKS is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HUNKS
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How HUNKS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HUNKS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 392,122.
What does HUNKS mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A miserly or surly old person, especially an old man.
The word looks like an ordinary plural of hunk, but it has always been used as a singular noun for a stingy, disagreeable old man, much as gallows is treated as one word rather than many. Writers such as Dickens used an old hunks to describe a miser who guarded every coin, and the word carried a grumbling, unpleasant tone rather than mere thrift. It never developed a matching singular form without the final s, which is why dictionaries list hunks itself, and not hunk, as the headword for this sense.
How HUNKS is used
Functions as a singular noun despite the final s: an old hunks, not an old hunk.
- The old hunks refused to spend a shilling on his own dinner.
- Neighbours called him a hunks behind his back.
- A hunks like that counts every candle stub twice.
- She married a hunks who begrudged her even a new bonnet.
- The play mocks a hunks who starves his own servants.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HUNKS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HUNKS
1 longer words begin with HUNKS.
Words ending in HUNKS
2 words end in HUNKS. Useful as a back hook: play HUNKS onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in HUNKS
Common questions about HUNKS
- Is HUNKS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HUNKS, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HUNKS worth?
- HUNKS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HUNKS mean?
- A miserly or surly old person, especially an old man.
- What letters can be added to HUNKS?
- HUNKS takes 2 hooks: 2 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HUNKS:
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