THILK is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. THILK is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept THILK?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THILK is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THILK
No single letter turns THILK into another word.
How THILK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in THILK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does THILK mean in Scrabble?
pronoun
archaicdialect
That same one; the very same, an old form meaning that or the same.
Thilk was formed by fusing that with ilk, an old word for same, and it once did the work now done by that same or the very. It appears in Middle English and later dialect writing where a modern reader would simply write that or the same, and it dropped out of ordinary use long before the modern period.
How THILK is used
Archaic and dialectal; encountered chiefly in old texts and in deliberately antique or regional writing.
- The old text speaks of thilk day the harvest failed.
- He wrote thilk where a modern writer would put that same.
- In thilk village nothing much had changed for a century.
- The chronicle names thilk king twice in one passage.
- She kept thilk phrase to give the poem an antique sound.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THILK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in THILK
Common questions about THILK
- Is THILK valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and THILK is not in it.
- How many points is THILK worth?
- THILK is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THILK mean?
- That same one; the very same, an old form meaning that or the same.
- What letters can be added to THILK?
- No single letter can be added to THILK to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of THILK:
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