TALKIE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. TALKIE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TALKIE?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TALKIE is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TALKIE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TALKIE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in TALKIE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 51,100.
What does TALKIE mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalhistorical
An early film with a spoken soundtrack, as opposed to a silent film.
When films with synchronised speech first appeared in the late 1920s, audiences called them talkies to tell them apart from the silent pictures they already knew. The Jazz Singer of 1927 is the film usually credited with launching the talkie era. The word faded as sound became standard and nobody needed to distinguish the two.
How TALKIE is used
Informal and historical; used in writing about early cinema.
- The first talkie drew crowds to the little theatre.
- Many silent stars failed to make the move to the talkie.
- He remembered seeing his first talkie as a boy.
- The talkie replaced the pianist in the cinema pit.
- A talkie of that date often sounds scratchy today.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TALKIE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TALKIE
3 longer words begin with TALKIE.
Shorter words from the letters in TALKIE
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Common questions about TALKIE
- Is TALKIE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TALKIE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TALKIE worth?
- TALKIE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TALKIE mean?
- An early film with a spoken soundtrack, as opposed to a silent film.
- What letters can be added to TALKIE?
- TALKIE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TALKIE:
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