TACKET is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. TACKET 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 TACKET?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TACKET is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TACKET
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TACKET scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in TACKET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 367,917.
What stands out about TACKET
- TACKET 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 TACKET mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsdialect
A small, broad-headed nail, especially one used in heavy boots.
Tacket is a Scottish and northern dialect word for the short nails driven into the soles of working boots to make them last. Boots studded with them were called tacketty, and the clatter of such boots on stone was once an everyday sound in country villages. The word is a small form of tack, which names a similar short nail.
How TACKET is used
Scots and northern dialect; seen in older fiction and in discussion of traditional footwear.
- He hammered a tacket into the worn heel.
- Every tacket in the sole rang on the cobbles.
- A loose tacket had worked its way up through the leather.
- The cobbler kept a tin of tacket nails by the door.
- She found a rusty tacket in the old shoe.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TACKET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TACKET
4 longer words begin with TACKET.
Shorter words from the letters in TACKET
Common questions about TACKET
- Is TACKET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TACKET, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TACKET worth?
- TACKET is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TACKET mean?
- A small, broad-headed nail, especially one used in heavy boots.
- What letters can be added to TACKET?
- TACKET takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TACKET:
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