NABKS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. NABKS 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept NABKS?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NABKS is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NABKS
No single letter turns NABKS into another word.
How NABKS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NABKS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does NABKS mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
The small, sweetish fruit of a thorny Middle Eastern and North African tree known in older texts as the lote tree.
Nabks grow on a spiny tree found across arid parts of the Middle East and North Africa, where the fruit has long been eaten fresh or dried. The tree itself carries several older names in English travel and botanical writing, and nabks are sometimes confused with the unrelated jujube, though the two trees belong to the same wider family.
How NABKS is used
Chiefly in botanical and travel writing about the Middle East and North Africa.
- Traders in the market sold baskets of dried nabks.
- The nabks ripen on a thorny tree that tolerates drought well.
- Early travellers described eating nabks gathered from wild trees.
- Nabks and jujubes are often mixed up despite belonging to different species.
- The tree that bears nabks also supplies a hard, useful timber.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NABKS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NABKS
The 5 tiles of NABKS in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in NABKS
Common questions about NABKS
- Is NABKS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and NABKS is not in it.
- How many points is NABKS worth?
- NABKS is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NABKS mean?
- The small, sweetish fruit of a thorny Middle Eastern and North African tree known in older texts as the lote tree.
- What letters can be added to NABKS?
- No single letter can be added to NABKS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NABKS:
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