JOKE is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. JOKE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JOKE?
| 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: 59 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JOKE is to know. It scores 15 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JOKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JOKE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in JOKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 40,846.
What does JOKE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Something said or done to cause amusement.
Joke came from a Latin word meaning a jest and arrived in the seventeenth century as slang, which offended people who preferred the older term. The practical joke is eighteenth-century and was once a great deal crueller than now.
How JOKE is used
Countable. Also a verb: joked, jokes.
- A joke that has to be explained has already failed.
- The word joke was slang in the 1600s.
- He joked about it for a year and then stopped.
- A practical joke in 1750 could injure somebody.
- Two jokes in one speech and both of them borrowed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JOKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JOKE
10 longer words begin with JOKE.
Shorter words from the letters in JOKE
Common questions about JOKE
- Is JOKE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JOKE, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JOKE worth?
- JOKE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JOKE mean?
- Something said or done to cause amusement.
- What letters can be added to JOKE?
- JOKE takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of JOKE:
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