LAWKS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. LAWKS 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept LAWKS?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LAWKS is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LAWKS
No single letter turns LAWKS into another word.
How LAWKS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LAWKS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does LAWKS mean in Scrabble?
interjection
dialectarchaic
A dialect exclamation of surprise, chiefly among Cockney speakers.
Lawks shortens an older oath calling on the Lord, in the same way several English exclamations trimmed a longer religious phrase down to something safe to say in company. It survives now mostly in stories and dialogue written to sound old-fashioned or working-class London, rather than in speech anybody actually uses today.
How LAWKS is used
Archaic and dialect; met in older or deliberately old-fashioned writing rather than in current speech.
- Lawks, she said, and dropped the tray.
- The old letter is full of lawks and other exclamations nobody uses now.
- He wrote lawks into the dialogue to sound Cockney.
- Lawks-a-mercy was the fuller form the shorter lawks came from.
- A writer reaching for old London dialogue reaches for lawks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LAWKS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LAWKS
The 5 tiles of LAWKS in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in LAWKS
Common questions about LAWKS
- Is LAWKS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LAWKS is not in it.
- How many points is LAWKS worth?
- LAWKS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LAWKS mean?
- A dialect exclamation of surprise, chiefly among Cockney speakers.
- What letters can be added to LAWKS?
- No single letter can be added to LAWKS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LAWKS:
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