SWINK is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SWINK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SWINK?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SWINK is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SWINK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
swinksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SWINK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SWINK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does SWINK mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To labor hard; to toil.
Swink survives today chiefly from Chaucer and other medieval writers, who paired the verb with words like sweat when describing the daily grind of ordinary working people such as the plowman and the poor scholar. The word largely dropped out of the language after the Middle English period, surviving mainly as a curiosity in historical and literary study rather than as a living part of the vocabulary. A related noun use of swink names the drudgery itself, and it is equally rare outside quotation. Modern writers who reach for swink usually do so deliberately, to give a passage an old-fashioned or mock-medieval flavor.
How SWINK is used
Archaic; encountered mainly in medieval literature and deliberately old-fashioned writing.
- The plowman must swink from dawn until dusk.
- Chaucer's poor scholar was glad to swink for his learning.
- The translation keeps the old verb swink rather than modernizing it.
- Peasants would swink in the fields through the harvest season.
- He used swink deliberately to give the poem an ancient sound.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SWINK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SWINK
The 5 tiles of SWINK in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SWINK
5 longer words begin with SWINK.
Words ending in SWINK
1 words end in SWINK. Useful as a back hook: play SWINK onto a word already on the board.
Words with SWINK inside
3 words contain SWINK in the middle. Words that start with SWINK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SWINK
Common questions about SWINK
- Is SWINK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SWINK, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SWINK worth?
- SWINK is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SWINK mean?
- To labor hard; to toil.
- What letters can be added to SWINK?
- SWINK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SWINK:
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