SPAKE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SPAKE 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 SPAKE?
| 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 SPAKE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPAKE
No single letter turns SPAKE into another word.
How SPAKE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SPAKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What stands out about SPAKE
- The same 5 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 SPAKE mean in Scrabble?
other
archaic
An archaic past tense form of speak, used in older or deliberately old-fashioned English.
Spake once served as the ordinary past tense of speak in early Modern English, appearing throughout the King James Bible and other texts of that period. Writers today reach for spake only to give a line a scriptural, poetic, or mock-ancient flavour, since ordinary modern English uses spoke instead. Because the form no longer changes for person, the same word spake covers I spake, he spake, and they spake alike. Its survival is almost entirely in quotation, hymn and pastiche rather than in everyday writing.
How SPAKE is used
Archaic; found in older religious and literary texts and in writing that imitates that older style.
- The prophet spake unto the people from the mountain.
- As the old book has it, the Lord spake these very words.
- The poem borrows spake to sound ancient rather than modern.
- He spake softly, in the manner of the old translation.
- Thus spake the elder, and the crowd fell silent.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPAKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPAKE
The 5 tiles of SPAKE in a different order — 2 found.
Words ending in SPAKE
3 words end in SPAKE. Useful as a back hook: play SPAKE onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in SPAKE
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Common questions about SPAKE
- Is SPAKE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPAKE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPAKE worth?
- SPAKE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPAKE mean?
- An archaic past tense form of speak, used in older or deliberately old-fashioned English.
- What letters can be added to SPAKE?
- No single letter can be added to SPAKE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SPAKE:
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