SLAKERS is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SLAKERS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SLAKERS?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SLAKERS is to know. It scores 11 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SLAKERS
No single letter turns SLAKERS into another word.
How SLAKERS scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in SLAKERS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,029 thousand.
What stands out about SLAKERS
- SLAKERS begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SLAKERS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
Workers who slake something, especially lime, in the plural.
Slaking lime means pouring water onto quicklime and standing well back: it boils, steams and has set fire to timber more than once. The men who did it in a lime works were the slakers, and the word belongs to that trade rather than to the general sense of quenching a thirst.
How SLAKERS is used
Plural of slaker. Chiefly in lime burning and in building history.
- The slakers worked in pairs and never at speed.
- Two slakers could keep a whole site supplied.
- The slakers wore no protection worth the name.
- A record of the works lists the slakers by name.
- The word slakers belongs to lime burning and not to thirst.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SLAKERS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SLAKERS
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Common questions about SLAKERS
- Is SLAKERS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SLAKERS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SLAKERS worth?
- SLAKERS is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SLAKERS mean?
- Workers who slake something, especially lime, in the plural.
- What letters can be added to SLAKERS?
- No single letter can be added to SLAKERS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of SLAKERS:
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