KNOUT is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. KNOUT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept KNOUT?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KNOUT is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KNOUT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
knoutsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How KNOUT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in KNOUT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does KNOUT mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A whip made of leather thongs, often twisted with wire, formerly used in Russia to flog criminals.
The knout was a brutal instrument of official punishment in imperial Russia, capable of killing a prisoner if the sentence called for enough strokes, and its name became a byword for harsh, state-inflicted cruelty. Writers describing Russian history or fiction use knout both for the physical whip and, more loosely, for the whole system of corporal punishment it represented. The device was formally abolished in the nineteenth century, so the word today belongs almost entirely to historical description.
How KNOUT is used
Historical; used mainly when describing punishment in imperial Russia rather than in ordinary modern contexts.
- The prisoner was sentenced to a hundred strokes of the knout.
- The novel describes the terror that the mere mention of the knout could inspire.
- Officials abolished the knout as a legal punishment in the nineteenth century.
- Scars from the knout marked the old soldier's back.
- Historians study the knout as a symbol of arbitrary imperial power.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KNOUT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with KNOUT
3 longer words begin with KNOUT.
Shorter words from the letters in KNOUT
Common questions about KNOUT
- Is KNOUT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts KNOUT, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is KNOUT worth?
- KNOUT is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KNOUT mean?
- A whip made of leather thongs, often twisted with wire, formerly used in Russia to flog criminals.
- What letters can be added to KNOUT?
- KNOUT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of KNOUT:
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