TOCK is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 10 points
Yes for Scrabble. TOCK is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept TOCK?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TOCK is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TOCK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TOCK scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in TOCK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 40,846.
What does TOCK mean in Scrabble?
noun
The second sound of a ticking clock.
Tock exists only as the partner of tick, and the pair is fixed: nobody says it the other way round. English does this with several pairs, and the vowel always runs from high to low.
How TOCK is used
Countable. Chiefly in the pair tick tock.
- A tock follows a tick and never precedes it.
- The word tock exists only as half of a pair.
- Two clocks out of step turn a tock into a mess.
- The vowel in tock is lower than the one before it.
- Nobody writes the pair with tock first.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TOCK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TOCK
8 longer words begin with TOCK.
Words ending in TOCK
Showing 24 of 41 words that end in TOCK. Useful as a back hook: play TOCK onto a word already on the board.
Words with TOCK inside
Showing 24 of 158 words that contain TOCK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TOCK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TOCK
Common questions about TOCK
- Is TOCK valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TOCK is not in it.
- How many points is TOCK worth?
- TOCK is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TOCK mean?
- The second sound of a ticking clock.
- What letters can be added to TOCK?
- TOCK takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of TOCK:
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