JAKS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 15 points
It depends on the list you play by. JAKS is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 15 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept JAKS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JAKS is to know. It scores 15 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JAKS
No single letter turns JAKS into another word.
How JAKS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in JAKS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 108,923.
What does JAKS mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
Jackfruit trees, the plural of jak, an East Indian tree of the breadfruit family.
Growers in South and Southeast Asia cultivate jaks for their enormous fruit, among the largest tree-borne fruit in the world, and the tree is also known as the jackfruit or jakfruit tree. The plural jaks describes more than one of these trees growing together, as in an orchard.
How JAKS is used
Used in botanical and agricultural descriptions of South and Southeast Asia.
- The orchard was planted mostly with jaks along the lower slope.
- Villagers gathered fruit from the jaks every autumn.
- Rows of jaks lined the path behind the temple.
- The old estate grew jaks alongside mango and coconut trees.
- Traders loaded baskets of fruit picked straight from the jaks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JAKS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in JAKS
3 words end in JAKS. Useful as a back hook: play JAKS onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in JAKS
Common questions about JAKS
- Is JAKS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and JAKS is not in it.
- How many points is JAKS worth?
- JAKS is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JAKS mean?
- Jackfruit trees, the plural of jak, an East Indian tree of the breadfruit family.
- What letters can be added to JAKS?
- No single letter can be added to JAKS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of JAKS:
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