Is OKAY valid in Words with Friends?

Yes. Words with Friends accepts OKAY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.

How many points is OKAY worth?

OKAY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.

What letters can be added to OKAY?

OKAY takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.

OKAY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points

Yes. OKAY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.

o1k5a1y4

PlayableOKAY · 4 letters · 11 pts Scrabble · 10 pts WWF

11points in Scrabble

10points in Words with Friends

4letters

2hooks available

1 in 27,231odds of drawing this rack

Which word lists accept OKAY?

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: 43 / 100

43WORD POWER

Points per tile 35%

2.75

Hooks 25%

Bingo potential 20%

Tile availability 20%

Our own measure of how useful OKAY is to know. It scores 11 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated

Hooks for OKAY

Front hooks — 1

tokay12

Back hooks — 1

okays12

Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.

How OKAY scores

Scrabble o1k5a1y4 11

Words with Friends o1k5a1y3 10

Face value of the 4 tiles in OKAY, before any board multiplier.

Tiles you need

Letter	Needed	In the bag
o	1	8
k	1	1
a	1	9
y	1	2

Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 27,231.

What stands out about OKAY

The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.

Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things

What does OKAY mean in Scrabble?

adjective

informal

All right; acceptable or satisfactory.

Okay is probably the best-travelled English word in the world and began as a deliberate misspelling in a Boston joke of 1839. A presidential campaign the following year fixed it in the language for good.

How OKAY is used

Also spelled OK. Adjective, adverb, noun and verb.

The result was okay and nobody celebrated.
The word okay began as a deliberate misspelling in 1839.
They okayed the plan and forgot to tell anybody.
A campaign in 1840 fixed okay in the language.
Okay travels further than any other English word.

Written for this site: 1 meaning of OKAY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.

Anagrams of OKAY

kayo11 oaky11

The 4 tiles of OKAY in a different order — 2 found.

Words starting with OKAY

okays12 okayed14 okaying15

3 longer words begin with OKAY.

Words ending in OKAY

tokay12

1 words end in OKAY. Useful as a back hook: play OKAY onto a word already on the board.

Words with OKAY inside

tokays13

1 words contain OKAY in the middle. Words that start with OKAY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.

Shorter words from the letters in OKAY

kay10 yak10 yok10 koa7 oak7 oka7 ky9 ka6 ko6 ok6 ay5 oy5 ya5 yo5

Common questions about OKAY

Is OKAY valid in Words with Friends?: Yes. Words with Friends accepts OKAY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
How many points is OKAY worth?: OKAY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
What does OKAY mean?: All right; acceptable or satisfactory.
What letters can be added to OKAY?: OKAY takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.

Every word you can build from the 4 letters of OKAY:

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