PIKED is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. PIKED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PIKED?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PIKED is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PIKED
Front hooks — 1
spikedBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How PIKED scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PIKED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does PIKED mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Held with the body bent at the hips and the legs kept straight.
In diving and gymnastics the piked shape is one of three the judges recognise, and it sits in the middle for difficulty: harder than tucked, easier than laid out. The same four letters are the past tense of an unrelated verb, and in older writing piked means simply run through with a pointed weapon.
How PIKED is used
Placed after the noun in scoring — a somersault piked. Also the past tense of pike.
- She took the second dive piked and scored higher for it.
- A piked somersault is harder than a tucked one.
- The judges marked him down for a piked shape that opened early.
- He held it piked for the whole flight.
- Piked, tucked and straight are the three the sheet allows.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PIKED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in PIKED
2 words end in PIKED. Useful as a back hook: play PIKED onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in PIKED
Common questions about PIKED
- Is PIKED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PIKED, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PIKED worth?
- PIKED is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PIKED mean?
- Held with the body bent at the hips and the legs kept straight.
- What letters can be added to PIKED?
- PIKED takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PIKED:
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