SHOOK is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SHOOK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHOOK?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHOOK is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHOOK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
shooksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHOOK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHOOK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 336,105.
What does SHOOK mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A set of parts, especially staves, headings and hoops, cut and shaped ready to be assembled into a cask, barrel or box.
A shook is sold and shipped disassembled so that it takes up less space than a finished container, and it is put together only when the barrel or crate is actually needed. Coopers and box makers historically bought a shook by the hundred, since flat-packed staves and heads were cheaper to transport than a finished cask. The word is mainly a trade term today and turns up chiefly in histories of the barrel and packing-case industries. It should not be confused with the everyday past tense shook, which comes from the separate verb shake.
How SHOOK is used
A specialist term from the cooperage and box-making trades, rare outside that context.
- The warehouse kept a large stock of shook ready for assembly into barrels.
- A box shook contains all the boards needed to nail together one crate.
- The cooper ordered another shipment of oak shook for the new casks.
- Shipping a shook flat saved far more space than shipping a finished barrel.
- Workers nailed the shook together in minutes once it arrived at the yard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHOOK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHOOK
The 5 tiles of SHOOK in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SHOOK
1 longer words begin with SHOOK.
Words ending in SHOOK
1 words end in SHOOK. Useful as a back hook: play SHOOK onto a word already on the board.
Words with SHOOK inside
1 words contain SHOOK in the middle. Words that start with SHOOK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SHOOK
Common questions about SHOOK
- Is SHOOK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHOOK, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHOOK worth?
- SHOOK is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHOOK mean?
- A set of parts, especially staves, headings and hoops, cut and shaped ready to be assembled into a cask, barrel or box.
- What letters can be added to SHOOK?
- SHOOK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHOOK:
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