PLANK is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. PLANK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PLANK?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PLANK is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PLANK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
planksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PLANK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PLANK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does PLANK mean in Scrabble?
noun
A long, flat, thick piece of sawn timber, typically used in building floors, decks or ships.
A plank is thicker and sturdier than an ordinary board, which is why builders reach for it when a structure needs to bear weight, such as a floor, a scaffold, or the deck of a ship. Historically, walking the plank referred to forcing a prisoner to step off a plank extended over the side of a ship, a punishment now remembered mainly through pirate stories. The word can also serve as a verb, meaning to cover something with planks, or informally to place something down with a single firm motion. In politics, a plank can also mean one specific point in a party's platform of policies.
How PLANK is used
Common in construction and shipbuilding, and also used figuratively in phrases such as walking the plank or a plank of a political platform.
- Workers laid a heavy plank across the trench.
- He planked the old wooden floor himself over the weekend.
- The pirate story ended with the captive forced to walk the plank.
- Each plank of the fence needed a fresh coat of paint.
- Lower taxes became the central plank of her campaign.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PLANK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PLANK
11 longer words begin with PLANK.
Words ending in PLANK
1 words end in PLANK. Useful as a back hook: play PLANK onto a word already on the board.
Words with PLANK inside
Showing 24 of 28 words that contain PLANK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PLANK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PLANK
Common questions about PLANK
- Is PLANK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PLANK, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PLANK worth?
- PLANK is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PLANK mean?
- A long, flat, thick piece of sawn timber, typically used in building floors, decks or ships.
- What letters can be added to PLANK?
- PLANK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PLANK:
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