OIK is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. OIK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OIK?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OIK is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OIK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OIK scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in OIK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does OIK mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritish
A person regarded as rude or of low class.
Oik is British school slang from the 1920s and it says more about whoever uses it than about the target: it places the speaker as surely as it insults anybody else. The origin is unknown, which is common for words that began inside one institution.
How OIK is used
Countable: an oik, two oiks. Chiefly British and disparaging.
- He called them oiks and the word did him no favours.
- An oik in that vocabulary is anybody from outside.
- The word oik began in a school and stayed there for decades.
- Two oiks, he said, and meant two people with jobs.
- Calling somebody an oik dates the speaker precisely.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OIK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OIK
The 3 tiles of OIK in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OIK
3 longer words begin with OIK.
Words ending in OIK
1 words end in OIK. Useful as a back hook: play OIK onto a word already on the board.
Words with OIK inside
19 words contain OIK in the middle. Words that start with OIK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OIK
Common questions about OIK
- Is OIK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OIK, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OIK worth?
- OIK is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OIK mean?
- A person regarded as rude or of low class.
- What letters can be added to OIK?
- OIK takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of OIK:
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