STANK is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. STANK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STANK?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STANK is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STANK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
stanksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How STANK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in STANK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What stands out about STANK
- 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 STANK mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsdialect
Chiefly Scots: a pool of standing water, or a small pond or ditch held back by a dam or embankment.
The word is best known today in Scottish place names, where it points to a low, marshy spot that once held water behind an embankment or mill lade. In older dialect writing, stank was also used as a rough past tense of stink, as in the line it stank something fearful, though that verbal sense has all but vanished from living speech. Dictionaries of Scots and northern English keep the noun alive mainly through regional glossaries and historical texts rather than everyday conversation. A reader who meets stank now is far more likely to be looking at a map or a dialect dictionary than hearing the word spoken aloud.
How STANK is used
Regional Scots noun, chiefly historical or dialectal; rarely used outside Scottish English today.
- Ducks gathered on the stank behind the old mill.
- A stank had formed where the embankment blocked the burn.
- Village records mention repairs to the stank each spring.
- The children waded through the shallow stank after the rain.
- Local farmers had built the stank to water their cattle.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STANK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of STANK
The 5 tiles of STANK in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with STANK
3 longer words begin with STANK.
Words ending in STANK
1 words end in STANK. Useful as a back hook: play STANK onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in STANK
Common questions about STANK
- Is STANK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STANK, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STANK worth?
- STANK is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STANK mean?
- Chiefly Scots: a pool of standing water, or a small pond or ditch held back by a dam or embankment.
- What letters can be added to STANK?
- STANK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of STANK:
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